Word: kefauveritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee: Democrats are favored, but Republicans are not conceding, in Kefauver's home state. Still to come: an Eisenhower visit to Memphis. 11
Hopping the next day to Springfield, Ill., Stevenson had one of his rare campaign meetings with Running Mate Estes Kefauver, and between their assessments of the campaign ("Elated," said Adlai; "We are both very happy," said Estes), both pitched hard for the farm vote.† In language as plain as...
† So hard that they could not agree on some of the facts. Farm surpluses, said Stevenson, have skyrocketed under the Republicans-15 times as much cotton, 2¼ times as much oats, eight times as much barley. Kefauver's more expansive figures: 25 times as much cotton, 15...
Always up to date was a chart that showed the whereabouts and activities of other key campaigners-President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson and former President Truman (Nixon largely ignored the travels, of Estes Kefauver). From the chart, Nixon could be sure that he was not upstaging Ike in the next day...
* Wrote Columnist T.R.B. (the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout) in the rabidly anti-Nixon New Republic: "On the Nixon caravan everything goes right, on the Kefauver Special everything goes wrong . . . With genuine perplexity Republican columnists ask, 'Why is it people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we...