Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominate Adlai Stevenson as TIME'S Man of the Year. Had he achieved his wish and become Secretary of State, his kindly diplomacy and forthright manner could well have found a solution to the Viet Nam problem...
...affectionate reminiscence of Adlai Stevenson that appeared in Look last month, CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as expressing misgivings about aspects of U.S. foreign policy the day before he died in London last summer. Though the late U.N. Ambassador's comments on the subject made up only a fraction of Sevareid's article, Stevenson was consequently pictured in the press as a man in revolt against President Johnson's policy in Viet...
Last week, "in the interest of history," Stevenson's son, Adlai III, released a seven-page letter that his father had composed three days before he died. Written in reply to a group of American artists, writers and scientists who had urged Stevenson to quit, the letter flatly contradicted what some called "the Stevenson tragedy." The group's arguments, Stevenson wrote, "rest on a simple presupposition: that I share your belief in the disastrous trend of American foreign policy. But it is precisely this presupposition that I do not share with you. Whatever criticisms may be made over...
...There was no one to pop up and say, 'You were wrong-I was there.'" The Roosevelt books were splendid training for A Thousand Days. A Little Sore. With 1960 approaching, Schlesinger turned once again to the life of action. He has confessed to being "nostalgically for Stevenson, ideologically for Humphrey, and realistically for Kennedy." Fortunately for his future, realism won out. Kennedy, vacationing on the Cape at Hyannis Port, invited him for intimate dinners and sought his counsel. Stevensonians were furious, accused him of being a "turncoat opportunist" who had made "peace with the enemy." His wife...
...campaign trail, Kennedy used Arthur sparingly. After Kennedy won the Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, he scrapped an acceptance speech that Schlesinger had drafted "because it was written for Stevenson. My cadence and timing are entirely different. It was a beautiful speech, though. I guess Arthur was a little sore." But once in Washington, the new President summoned Schlesinger to the White House, and the professor moved into an 18th century red brick house in stylish Georgetown...