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...expressed any indignation over what Hiss has done." Nixon quoted a Stevenson speech in which he said: "There aren't many American Communists-far fewer than in the days of the great Depression, and they aren't on the whole very important." Then Nixon quoted J. Edgar Hoover: "In actual numbers, their [Communists] membership may not be large. This has been cited by the ignorant and the apologists and the appeasers of Communists in our country as minimizing the danger...
...major speeches packed auditoriums and were well received. He was in fine literary form, produced several new witticisms and an old limerick,* quoted Bernard Shaw, Artistotle Browning, and La Rochefoucauld. The political pattern of Stevenson's speeches was clear: he was mainly running against President Herbert Hoover and Robert Taft...
...their own forces in line than the Republicans, because a larger proportion of the Democrats have relatively low income and educational levels. This, he said, explains "the rather robust language" used by Truman and others to show that the Republican party is controlled by the same old crowd. "Herbert Hoover, the depression, Wall Street and various other notions, not necessarily of immediate relevence, have use in renewing the embers of Democratic loyalty," he said...
...Massachusetts voted with them. When candidate Eisenhower took an ambivalent and recreant stand on McCarthyism, Lodge announced his support of the Wisconsin Senator and declared he would be glad to have him come to Massachusetts to help him in the campaign. Yet he has sponsored sound legislation creating the Hoover Commission, providing Federal aid for schools and health purposes, liberalizing immigration laws, and attempting to end the filibuster. This is the record of a low pressure conservative. It does not detract from Lodge's contributions to a sane American foreign policy...
...politician or pundit would call it more than a fighting chance. The only Republican presidential candidate who ever carried Texas was Herbert Hoover, who got 26,000 more votes than Al Smith in 1928, with a strong religious issue on his side. In 1948, despite the Dixiecrat movement, Harry Truman carried 247 of Texas' 254 counties and won the state by more than half a million votes. Even in Texas, where almost everything is done in a big way, it will take a real political tornado to uproot that many Democrats...