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Other labor leaders wish that their much admired boss would put up his customary fight and lead the labor movement to something-even if it is defeat. "Look, we don't always have to win," says another union official. "We supported Adlai Stevenson on principle because he was right. Being the underdog doesn't bother us." Union leaders also worry that failure to support the top of the ticket will hurt other candidates on the ballot and jeopardize Democratic control of Congress. Traditionally, labor can expect little aid and comfort from Republicans...
...House becomes closely contested-and if their seniority on committees is protected. Republicans would willingly strike such a bargain. But past elections belie the presidential coattails theory. Democrats gained only two Senate seats when Johnson swamped Goldwater in 1964; Republicans actually lost congressional strength when Eisenhower crushed Adlai Stevenson...
...spiritual son was Adlai Stevenson. His idealism and wit rejuvenated her and, as Lash points out, she was flattered by his dependence on her. Yet she came to regard her dramatic pro-Stevenson stand at the 1960 convention as a mistake since it hurt his chance to be Secretary of State. It also dissipated her own power and as Lash notes: "She cared about her influence...
...held a couple of selling jobs, but set about writing at once. The embarrassing question was: Write what? He had read some Stevenson, Chesterton and a few Georgian poets. "What was their common characteristic?" he pondered. "It was obvious. They walked." So young Pritchett took to the roads and returned dusty with full notebooks. Soon the Christian Science Monitor began publishing his word sketches...
...further the bandwagon psychology, the Muskie strategists won endorsements from big names in the party: California Senator John Tunney, Ohio Governor John Gilligan, Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp. Each new name made the nomination seem that much more inevitable. This was organizing the party drive from the top down, rather than from the bottom...