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Once nominated as Vice President, Nixon was assigned to play hatchet man on "communism and corruption" while Eisenhower remained statesmanlike. Nixon was all too eager to comply. He described Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson as one who "holds a Ph.D. from ((Secretary of State Dean)) Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment...
...Stevenson's debutante-hood was pre-ordained. "I came out at the Jackson Debutante Club in Jackson, Mississippi. My mother came out there, my grandmother, my aunt and my sister. I never thought of not doing...
...Stevenson was presented by her father and her brother escorted her, "which is sort of how it works in the South; if you have a brother of proper social age, he presents you." Similarly family-minded, Robe had her cousin be her escort and a high school friend be her 'marshal', saying "I wanted to keep it low-key, with friends from home." And in Austin, men receive equal time with women in the social whirl. Malone notes, "All 15 of us, our escorts were chosen for us; it's sort of an honor for them...
...women enjoyed themselves but none of them felt the sort of mystical, "You're woman now" glow one imagines debs of earlier years experiencing. As Malone states, "I didn't think it was the be-all, end-all." Stevenson adds, "It's just a big party where you get to invite lots of your friends and drink...
...grandmother and it won't do a thing for my mom." She adds, however, "My sister's daughters probably will do it." For others the question is one of geography. Malone says, "It depends on where we lived and if they want to do it." And Stevenson answered, "Only if we live in Jackson, Mississippi. Which...