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Rising for a few additional remarks. Sullivan noted that his physical fitness director at the "Y" was waiting outside to run off the dinner. And then he quoted Adlai Stevenson: "'The best of one's life is one's friends'--tonight has proven the truth of that remark...
...civil rights. Where was the Senator about a month ago, when the civil rights (housing) bill came up for a vote? At that time, both parties needed votes and the Senators were rushing back to the Senate-except Senator McCarthy. He stayed in New Hampshire trying to get votes. Adlai Stevenson would not have stayed away...
...Senator McCarthy offers some parallels with Barry Goldwater: he presents the politics of honesty and morality. But unlike the Senator from Arizona, McCarthy's intelligence gives vision to his honesty and takes the rasping edge of self-righteousness off his morality. He is a true successor to Adlai Stevenson...
...Kennedy and twice as smart as [Senator Stuart] Symington." But at the convention, McCarthy, no fan either of the Kennedys, whom he accused of "lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!" cried McCarthy. "Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party." It was an electrifying speech-and an entirely quixotic gesture...
McCarthy must also realize that candidates who do manage to survive Wisconsin often die at the national conventions. This "Wisconsin whammy" has twice befallen Estes Kefauver, the choice of state Democrats in 1952 and '56, who lost the nomination both years to Adlai Stevenson...