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Campaigning in Florida, Adlai Stevenson delivered the sharpest personal attack he has yet made on Estes Kefauver. Said Stevenson in a speech last week at Jacksonville: "There may be such a thing as wanting to be President too badly. And that may be one of the reasons why none of...
In response, the astonished Kefauver revealed an aspect of his personality rarely seen by the U.S. public. Angrily, the molasses-voiced Tennesseean called a press conference, accused Adlai of "mudslinging and character assassination ... I am surprised and disappointed." But even in anger, Estes was careful to display Sunday school magnanimity...
Sheerest Flattery. Stevenson's blast certainly demonstrated one thing: Estes is on his mind. Most of last week Stevenson was busy paying Kefauver the sincerest form of flattery. Rolling into Jacksonville on a one-day drive to win friends and influence Florida's May 29 primary, Stevenson stopped...
Back in his own Illinois, where he said he thought that Kefauver would probably get a "substantial" write-in vote in this week's Illinois primary, Stevenson gave the clearest indication of all of the Kefauver influence. Contrary to his original plans, announced Adlai, he was going to make...
Shooting Singles. Meanwhile, Estes rolled across the country as polities' closest approximation to perpetual motion. In three days early in the week he barnstormed the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Coral Gables. Everywhere he went he repeated the tried-and-true Kefauver vote-getting tactics which, said...