Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning to deal with the Democrats, he needled Stevenson for the abortive charge that the Eisenhower Administration had underwritten Argentina's Dictator Juan Perón (TIME, Oct. 8). "For it was their Administration that had made these loans. Now they have fled from the scene in headlong silence ... to bury this issue, no doubt, somewhere far, far down the high, high road." The Democrats "urge a vigorous and realistic policy towards the Communist empire, and they suggest that we begin ... by trusting our national safety to agreements that have no effective safeguards and no controls. They urge...
...searing attacks of 1952, Nixon decided that, as a spokesman for the Administration in power, he would pitch his campaign largely on the positive side, outlining gains the U.S. has made under Dwight Eisenhower (buried at Nixon's instigation early in the campaign: the potential issue of Adlai Stevenson's character-witness testimony for Alger Hiss...
...later Ike took the train to New York for short motorcades through Manhattan and a triumphant evening appearance (20,000 inside, 10,000 outside) in Madison Square Garden, two days after Adlai Stevenson. Neat in blue worsted suit, Ike marched into the Garden to an ear-shattering welcome touched off less by the mawkish maneuvers of such professional crowd churners as Walter Winchell and Fred Waring than by the President's own grin and greeting. Ike plugged heartily for Republican Senatorial Candidates Jacob Javits of New York and Prescott Bush of Connecticut, then proudly reviewed G.O.P. accomplishmients during...
Always up to date was a chart that showed the whereabouts and activities of other key campaigners-President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson and former President Truman (Nixon largely ignored the travels, of Estes Kefauver). From the chart, Nixon could be sure that he was not upstaging Ike in the next day's headlines, and also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement...
...pattern of what he would say and do, but he kept in close touch with the White House and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Only twice did Washington's Republican strategists prompt him on major matters: once to suggest that he get a little rougher with Adlai Stevenson, once to urge him to drop his valid point that free-enterprise technological advances will one day lead to a four-day work week in the U.S. It was a tough point to get across, and some Administration and G.O.P. brasshats thought it sounded like a commitment by the Eisenhower...