Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve percentage points from 1952-but he stood at a still healthy 64.5%. In Iowa, votes ranging up to 63% in well-to-do farm districts more than compensated for losses in drought-stricken areas. Eisenhower even won some low-income Kentucky farm districts that had gone for Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal of its 1952 vote was due less to the farm revolt than to a wretched Republican machine, a strong Democratic state ticket, and a smooth Democratic organization...
hotel's ballroom (and on the nation's television screens), he refused to watch Adlai Stevenson's television concession of defeat. He had not looked at Stevenson during the campaign, he said, and he did not intend to start at that late hour...
Politically, his opponent was not so much Adlai Stevenson as it was the Democratic Party. But from the time the President first took there was every indication that he would also defeat that foe. Everywhere he went-from Peoria to Portland. Ore. to Miami Philadelphia-cheering...
...been a quiet evening. Gathered in the presidential suite of Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, the Stevenson party of 20-family members and close friends-ate a leisurely buffet dinner, then settled back to watch the returns on television. Even when Cam paign Manager James A. Finnegan came in at 10:40 p.m. to confirm what had already become obvious, there was no change in the calm, genteel atmosphere. Shortly after midnight, Adlai Stevenson picked up a carefully drafted statement, and for the second time in four years made his way to the microphones to concede to Dwight Eisenhower...
...Behind him were weeks, months, years of hopes and dreams, plans and works. But of all the weeks during which he had fought for the world's greatest elective prize, none was more hectic, none was more strange than the one before Election Day. In that week Adlai Stevenson became a grandfather, was shaken by the violence which erupted across the seas, and was tarnished by his own performance...