Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, but also failing to do better against the two top Democrats than his one dangerous challenger, New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller. But last week, in a dramatic turnabout which has also been reflected nationally since Nixon's trip to Russia, the Field poll showed that for Richard Nixon, California is once...
From Coon Rapids, Stevenson's trail led to Wisconsin, where he had agreed to speak to the nonpolitical Madison Chapter of the Civil War Round Table. Once more he walked confidently into the political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes...
When Iowa Farmer Roswell Garst invited him to meet Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm, Stevenson accepted with pleasure. Under the protecting shade of a canvas canopy, the Soviet Premier and the two-time Democratic presidential candidate chatted amiably through lunch. Inevitably, their conversation turned from cold war to hot politics. Afterward, recounting it to the press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I repeat that little conversation?" he asked. "It won't reveal any secret?" Replied Adlai, with a big grin: "You are at liberty to reveal my deepest secret." Said Khrushchev: "Mr. Stevenson said that...
...Give Him a Welcome." In their discussion of U.S.-Soviet problems, Stevenson thought he detected a softening of the Russian position. "Maybe it's not so much a matter of 'give,' " he said, "as of education." Khrushchev himself "has changed a little since I saw him last summer. I feel better about him now." Such informed talk could not help enhancing Stevenson's stature as an authority on foreign relations-a reputation every candidate in the 1960 race eagerly seeks...
Without Trying. At a press conference, Stevenson reiterated his "no candidate" stand-with a notable escape clause. "Time and time and time again I have said that I am not a candidate. If you ask about a draft and things of that sort-these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote...