Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson, although twice defeated as a Democratic candidate for President, in a strong position to get the 1960 nomination? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Waiting Game...
Even Front Runner Jack Kennedy has been known to sigh in private that he might wind up on the short end of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. In the fall of 1959 Adlai Stevenson, twice victorious nominee, twice defeated presidential candidate, has as great a potential for the Democratic nomination...
...Stevenson has announced on a dozen different occasions that he does not choose to run in 1960. "I will not seek the Democratic nomination this year," he said emphatically on a New York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives...
Ardent Amateurs. If Stevenson is content to wait, legions of his admirers are willing to put their votes-and their campaign money-into cold storage, and wait too. "His followers woo him," says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers...
Representing 48 per cent of all persons polled, the Democrats favored Stevenson, Kennedy, and Humphrey, respectively, when asked to select a candidate from within their own ranks...