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Hustling back to Illinois after his Washington safari, Adlai Stevenson discovered that even the 775 miles between Washington and Springfield did not get him out from under the large shadow of the little man in the White House...
...President had been invited to make a speech in Milwaukee on Labor Day, the same day that Stevenson would launch his formal campaign with a speech in Detroit. The Solomon-like solution: both men would speak-but at different times of day. Beyond that point, however, no one in Springfield cared to attempt a precise definition of Truman's campaign role. The likelihood was that his assignment would be too inactive to suit Harry Truman and too active to suit most Stevenson advisers...
Nixon (himself once a barker for a "carnie" wheel) had come to Springfield to compete with the Democrats' star attraction, Adlai Stevenson, on his own home grounds. In a broiling sun, Dick Nixon spoke to 9,000 Illinois Republicans. He proved himself no great orator but a hard-hitting performer...
...Rocking Chair. His first evening back in Springfield, Stevenson called the custodian of Lincoln's house, where Lincoln had lived between 1844 and 1861, and from where he had gone to the White House. Stevenson said he just wanted to drop by for a visit. The door was unlocked for the governor. From 11 p.m. to midnight Adlai Stevenson stayed alone in the living room. No one is sure what he did there, but some say that for a time he sat in Abraham Lincoln's rocking chair, meditating...
Home Wave. In Springfield, Mass., while Antonio Giannetti was showing off his new air-conditioning system to customers during a heat wave, his barbershop got so cold that a thermostat turned on the radiators...