Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When nobody would hop when he said frog, Harry Truman turned viciously on Stevenson. Interviewed by Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., Truman said Stevenson "should have been taken off the platform" when, in his 1952 acceptance speech, he mentioned the possibility of a Democratic defeat. "In politics," snapped Harry Truman, "the other fellow's wrong and you're right. You cannot have a defeatist attitude." Later that day, dictating a statement to newsmen, Truman said he was convinced Stevenson "could not carry a single state in addition to what he did carry" in 1952.* At a press conference...
...opened, the squire from Libertyville took up his pencil and began to scribble out a draft of his acceptance address. He got scores of unsolicited suggestions and memos. After reading them, he tossed them aside and continued on his own. All last week, even during intervals in the hectic Truman crisis, he returned time and again to the isolation of his small, green-tinted law office on Chicago's South La Salle Street. There, shirt-sleeved and with tie askew, he revised, updated, rephrased and polished. On the convention's last night Adlai Stevenson stood up before...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, who "reminded us so movingly that this is 1956 and not 1932; not even 1952; that our problems alter as well as their solutions; that change is the law of life, and that political parties ignore it at their peril." There was also a nod to Harry Truman, the spirit of '48: "I am glad to have you on my side again...
...fading light of a hot summer day last week, Adlai Stevenson and a few friends left the Chicago Yacht Club, got into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Three days before, Harry Truman had struck. Stevenson was still crowding his hours with visits and visitors, handshakes, receptions, whisperings, conferences. Yet the crucial matters of the moment now seemed strangely suspended, like a mural of some bygone battle posted on a restaurant wall. It was a lovely yacht club, Stevenson mused; the new terrace was a perfect place for outdoor entertaining. Had anybody...
...Otter Ego. Stevenson's approach to politics has the same kind of intellectual detachment−a detachment that few working politicos will ever comprehend. What was taken for vacillation in 1952 when Harry Truman offered him the presidential nomination was, to Stevenson, an agonizing awareness of his earlier promise to run for re-election as governor of Illinois, pitted against a desire for service on the national scene. His humility and lack of confidence upon nomination ("Let this cup pass from me") signified mostly that he had not yet thought his way through to seeing himself as President...