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Surprisingly, however, few faculty members and fewer students apparently really debate the issue. Segregation in the South, like Communism elsewhere, is really not a serious subject for debate. Even those who might be against it had rather keep silent, or simply nod their head, instead of questioning so sacred a principle as "separate but equal...
Brimstone Words. When Adlai arrived at the inn, he faced angry opposition in the formidable persons of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson−who share in the South's dislike of Estes Kefauver and thought a wide-open convention would give the nod to Estes and his primary-built organization. Rayburn and Johnson used brimstone words while protesting that, in giving the convention its choice, Stevenson would seem to be abdicating his responsibility. People might think that Adlai would have equal trouble making up his mind about "whether some night to use the Seventh...
...high praise for 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...
...moderate" should head the Democratic ticket; only a thoroughgoing, yard-wide New Dealer has a chance to beat Dwight Eisenhower. And only Harriman stands "for the principles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, the only principles which will win in this campaign." (Retorted Stevenson, with an assenting nod from Eleanor Roosevelt: "I protest Mr. Harriman's claim that he has any exclusive rights to those principles...
With Stevenson the acknowledged front runner, Harriman and Stevenson look on the vice-presidential hopefuls with different eyes. Harriman is inclined to nod toward a candidate who can bring him delegates in the convention, e.g., Williams. Stevenson, confident of nomination, is inclined toward a running mate who can perhaps bring him a new bloc of votes in November, e.g., Kennedy. In short, is the vice-presidency to be reward or bait? The 1956 assumption: bait...