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...manner obscured by a derisive myth, Harold Stassen bears somewhat the hallmark of a Republican Stevenson. Though his wit is an auxiliary to (rather than a component of) his thought, and though he relishes politics, unlike the reluctant Democrat, Stassen shares with Stevenson, a first-hand respect for thought and an intellectual boldness, along with a reputation for defeat...
Among the cliches about Stassen is the charge that he is a perennial candidate, having run 20 years for the presidency and lost every time. In fact, Stassen's name was first entered in a presidential race by some of his friends, while he, then 37, was serving in the Pacific theatre with Admiral Halsey. In 1948 he did make a serious bid on his own, and was the man to beat until Dewey upset him in the Oregon primary. Stassen lost the nomination, and his party lost the election from failing to hold the farm vote. Stassen, three times...
...Stassen ran against Taft as a stand-in for Eisenhower, who could not return from Europe until late spring. Meanwhile, Stassen argued for a liberal foreign policy, and on the first ballot his votes gave Eiseinhower the nomination over Taft. In the new administration, Stassen served as director of Mutual Security and of Foreign Operations. He was a member of the National Security Council and participated regularly in Cabinet sessions. He was appointed Special Assistant for Arms Control, (or, as Eisenhower called him, "Secretary of Peace"). In this last capacity, he negotiated seriously with the Soviets in the summer...
Eisenhower's name was being used-possibly in vain-by contenders other than Scranton. Harold Stassen, now a Philadelphia lawyer with a record of elective losses in Pennsylvania elections, announced that he would definitely try to be nominated. He had, said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...
...this is changing fast under President Gaylord P. Harnwell, a high-energy physicist of national renown. When he succeeded the feckless Harold Stassen in 1953, Harnwell launched a fiveyear, $750,000 self-study, the most exhaustive ever attempted by a U.S. university. As a result of the study-and, as one dean puts it, of the fact that "the right people died"-Penn has been reborn...