Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print today could conceivably have any real effect on the outcome of the election. But for those Democrats who still think in terms of '48, it doesn't hurt to say a last word about their candidate, either by way of praise or mere factual interpretation of what Adlai Stevenson stands...
...Eisenhower's four years in Washington has been painted in vivid detail by the party hucksters, and both good and bad images of the candidates have been fully articulated. But one aspect of the voting picture that seems to be missing is a clear public understanding of what a Stevenson Administration would mean in terms of policies and personnel...
...Democratic plans for running the economy and for maintaining military defenses. In the first area, key elements of the Democratic program involve increased federal spending for aid to the aged, a national health insurance program, and stepped-up grants to finance education. Yet the Democratic plans as outlined in Stevenson's New America statements do not contemplate their "traditional" method of running the economy--financing governmental services out of additional taxes or fostering an inflationary surge to increase consumer buying power. Instead, the Democratic candidate is counting on the country's "explosive prosperity" to provide the new revenues...
...military policy too, the Democratic stand needs clarification. Stevenson's recent expressed hope that the manpower draft can be ended would seem in complete contrast with his party's normal orientation toward a program of balanced military preparedness. But a professional army composed of 20-year men, on examination, actually seems more reliable than a conscript army. Such an army would be less costly and more effective, Stevenson feels, because it would not be crippled by the need to retrain completely every two years. In addition, a highly mobile professionalized land force would be better able to cope with...
...these two policy areas, Stevenson has tried to polish up his party's ideological inheritance. No less apparent is the evolution of the type of cabinet member and personal adviser that Stevenson would bring with him to the White House. The candidate stands in the middle of two generations of party leaders. On the one hand are the hold-overs from the Truman Administration, older men mostly in their sixties who served in key posts up to 1952. On the other hand there is the candidate's planning staff, made up of young lawyers, governors, and senators in their forties...