Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly trying. Mingling with 400 friends and neighbors who gathered on his Illinois farm for a beer-and-bratwurst fund-raising picnic, he wore a blue denim jacket and red Funk Seeds cap. In that down-home outfit, it was almost possible to forget that former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, is a patrician intellectual and an unarousing public presence. Nonetheless, the crowd gave him a rousing sendoff, erupting with whoops and whistles when the local Democratic chairman asked, "Is Ad going to win?" Candidate Stevenson, meanwhile, just smiled, looking more embarrassed than flattered by the hoopla...
...going to win in his race against two-term Governor James Thompson? The Republican incumbent dropped behind Stevenson in the spring; a Chicago Tribune survey published last week puts Thompson ahead once again, 48% to 40%. It is the toughest race ever for two candidates who harbor presidential ambitions...
...Stevenson, who decided in 1979 not to seek a third Senate term, mainly pounds away at one potent issue: the flaccid economy. In a detailed, 200-page campaign exegesis, he proposes luring pension-fund investments to Illinois and encouraging high-tech industries. During a debate earlier this month that rapidly turned acrimonious, he accused Thompson of presiding over the worst economic decline in the U.S., citing the state's 12.2% unemployment rate and soaring debt. Stevenson, who later accused the Governor of "subterfuge and deception" to conceal his failures, tried to justify the snappish tone: "I'm portrayed...
...master in top form; he has lost neither his flair for the suggestive campaign anecdote or his crystalline analysis. The book's first half is more wide-ranging than any Making of the President work and hence its broader title. White starts back at the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson campaign, where, he says, the era of political bosses, candidates who were "gentlemen of heritage," and American world dominance began to give way to the age of endless presidential primaries, media blitzes, and limited American potency. Frequently pausing to dish out anecdotes left out of his earlier books, he runs through several...
...pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson). He did not regard music as an occupation for a nice Jewish boy, and along the way he made life miserable not only for his children but for his wife Jennie, who nevertheless stayed married to him for over half a century, until his death...