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...General Eisenhower, the great soldier President [April 4], really touched me and carried my heart to Abilene. How accurately you report that he embodied serene America. Standing on his achievements, Ike may truly be regarded as one of America's, nay, the world's greatest generals. Adlai Stevenson once said: "I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." The same can be said of Ike, the hero who despised heroics...
...course, there might have been some sick humor in this book, if Adler had not scrupulously avoided all of Nixon's Red-baiting witticisms from Joe McCarthy days, or his pre-assassination remarks on he Kennedys (Jack and Bobby). On the other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure...
...small, possibly doomed, but significant revolt against Mayor Richard Daley is being staged in Illinois by dissident Democrats. The movement's unofficial leader: State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, who last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
...Democratic Party" and "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation." What was the former Vice President up to? Clearly, he was out to knit together as best he could his party in Illinois while protecting his own interests. He wanted neither to outrage Daley nor to frustrate Adlai Stevenson. Daley represents the faction that had assured Humphrey the presidential nomination last year; Stevenson symbolizes the younger, more independent element that the party-and perhaps Humphrey himself-needs in future battles. But Humphrey seems to have underestimated the native antagonisms that are sundering the party in Illinois...
...Chicago, an anti-ABM group is suing the Army and the Defense Department to block construction of a site at nearby Libertyville. The town was Adlai Stevenson's home, and at a recent Chicago rally, his son, Adlai III, said that the choice of the site was a "cruel irony," since much of the thinking for the nuclear test-ban treaty was done in his father's house...