Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, Stuart Symington is the least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going for him. He has had more high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government than Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Texas' Lyndon Johnson put together. As a Midwesterner of Southern ancestry, who was born in Amherst, Mass, and raised in Baltimore, Md., he has an enviably broad and safe geographical base. And if he is one of the more pedestrian orators...
...neither too young nor too old. As an Episcopalian, he does not have to worry, as Kennedy does, about the widespread conviction that a Roman Catholic cannot be elected President. As a politician who has run for high public office twice and won twice, he does not carry Adlai Stevenson's stigma of past defeats. Though he has voted a straight liberal line in the U.S. Senate-certified and approved by Americans for Democratic Action-he has escaped the 200-proof-liberal label that afflicts Hubert Humphrey. And while Southern ties make him tolerable to many delegates from...
Former Governor Adlai Stevenson and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson declined to speak, while the appearance of Senator John F. Kennedy '40 will hinge upon his plans for attending the meeting of the Board of Overseers January...
...time grows short, Adlai Stevenson may lose some nervous adherents. (Says San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr.: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate, but if I had to decide between a going-Jesse of a Lyndon Johnson and a reluctant Adlai, I'd be for Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
...After a two-day swing through the Middle West, including a three-hour conference with Adlai Stevenson, Pat Brown headed back to California with the an nouncement that he would be "only" a favorite-son candidate. Two days of shoptalk with the Democratic elders had convinced him that he should not be a serious candidate for the presidency. ¶From Washington, word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought...