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...been active and influential Republicans. If the country and the Congress intend that the affairs entrusted to the AEC be administered on a political basis, i.e., be part of the Eisenhower and succeeding Administrations, the issue should be faced frankly and the law changed. We should not continue to drift into so momentous a change...
...using the money bags of the oil barons to support his demagogue pals . . ." Save for a few intent Followers in the front row, the score or so in the audience let their concentration lapse and their eyes drift from the speaker behind the chintz-covered table. A rough-hewn bust of Trotsky dominated one corner. Sleazy rattan blinds covered the high, narrow windows. Dusty, antique light fixtures shone dimly from the peeling ceiling...
Stevenson's summation: "The big economic problem ahead for the U.S. is to arrest the drift and assure the steady growth of our economy. During the 20 years of Democratic government, the country made big strides toward protecting itself against another terrible depression...
...inescapable result is drift. And it is drift away from the association of free nations which cannot exist without us, and without which we cannot exist as [a] nation. We come back to where we started-to the President. The decisions are his. Helped by his advisers, ultimately he must decide. The volume of work which should be done is appalling. It cannot be got through by listening to oral presentations, or "briefings," or reading one-page memoranda. It has to be sweated out. The facts have to be mastered, the choices and their consequences understood-so far as consequences...
...Stevenson, the principal speaker, sweated like a Fourth of July orator. His speech somehow missed the mark with the 1,000 Democratic diners, although Adlai had tried to cut it to their measure. "The Republican Party is so deeply split," he said, "that it cannot pursue consistent policies anywhere . . . Drift, division and demoralization have for 20 months obscured American purposes, discredited American leadership, and heightened the perils and tensions in this tense and perilous world at home and abroad...