Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this first group, the most powerful figure looms as Thomas K. Finletter, mentioned as a strong possibility for Secretary of State or Defense in a Stevenson cabinet...
...other pole are the young writers and thinkers who have made up the Stevenson entourage during this campaign. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably serve in the organizing months, at least, of a Democratic Administration. Stevenson's law partners William McCormick Blair and Willard Wirtz would undoubtedly wind up on his White House staff, along with campaign manager Jim Finnegan and press secretary Clayton Fritchey. Estes Kefauver, as Vice President, seems slated for the post of "super-Secretary of Agriculture" if he fails to make himself an effective leader of the Senate...
Right now, these theorizings about the personnel in a Stevenson Administration are not very meaningful, particularly in view of the pollsters' predictions. But taken with an appreciation of the subtleties and objectives of the Stevenson program, they are a good indication of the man and the party that appear on the ballot today. For the wise selection of a President should involve an acceptance of the candidate's policies and his advisers, as well as an endorsement of his personality...
...campaign Stevenson has given notice of his ability to provide this leadership. Through his New America reports--on education, health, the aged, natural resources, and economy--he has revealed that he has the information, and specific plans based on information. Stevenson has carefully worked out his proposals on the hydrogen bomb, so that the end of the test explosions need not mean the end of defense development...
...Stevenson's concern for dealing with the facts in internal matters has had its counterpart in his understanding of foreign affairs. His understanding of Asian neutralism, of Red China, of African independence, and of economic backwardness in these areas will result in policies attuned to a world in flux...