Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson asserted, "Too much of the press is occupied with entertainment. The press, however, reflects what the people want. It is a cross section of what...
...Stevenson maintained that Russia is a stable power. The belief it will be overthrown by revolution is wishful thinking...
...Adlai E. Stevenson told a Boston Democratic fund-raising dinner ($25 a plate) that the President "speaks for all of us" in refusing to be forced out of Berlin. But calling upon his party "to make good the perilous deficiencies of the executive branch," Stevenson suggested that the West can afford to negotiate toward disengagement in Central Europe. "We must face the fact that no Russian withdrawal can be secured without a modification of the Western position," he said. "In order to take, we will have to give...
Front Runner Kennedy is also drawing inevitable potshots from the rear, and a position-taking U.S. Senator pushing such hot subjects as labor reform, immigration, minimum wages, and unemployment compensation makes a target of high visibility. Busiest potshotter: New York's Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a warm Stevenson admirer, who attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph...
Potshots and all. Kennedy was obviously running first and fast. Said National Chairman Paul Butler, a perennial Stevenson backer, last week, "I would be less than fair if I did not say Senator Kennedy has substantial support throughout the country. Perhaps more than any other potential candidate...