Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must fundamentally change. Says Larry Hansen, administrative assistant to retiring Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III: "This is a party with no sense of what it's about, what it should be about, where it's going, where it should go. It tends to be dominated by men whose enthusiasm ran out a decade ago. There is no vision...
More moderate Democrats managed to hold off the aggressive Republican assault especially in the Midwest. Alan J. Dixon, for example, defeated David O'Neal for the seat of Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.), while incumbent Sens. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) and John Glenn (D-Oh.) overcame Republican challengers. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) pulled out a last-minute victory over Mary Estill Buchanan...
Carter's showing was slightly better than that of the Democratic candidate George McGovern, who won only 17 electoral votes in 1972. The president was close to the electoral vote total of Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and Barry Goldwater...
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...Stevenson will bring intelligence, energy, and some definite programs to the White House. At no time has the United States needed this kind of leadership more. Eisenhower has been "good" but he has not been energetic. Like a good nurse, he has made everyone feel better. But there are deep ills in American and the world which require more than soothing. Only Stevenson seems able to provide the necessary prescription...