Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baffles pollsters is the great block of "undecided" voters who swing most elections. In 1952, Gallup's last pre-election poll turned up 13% undecided. On the basis of past voting patterns, he "allocated" the undecideds more than 2 to 1 for the Democrats, which put the Eisenhower-Stevenson election into fifty-fifty country. Had Gallup instead discarded the undecideds and prorated the rest of the vote, his poll would have shown Ike over Adlai by 54% to 46%-Eisenhower won the actual election with 55% of the vote...
Humphrey declared for Adlai Stevenson although he knew it was a futile gesture that might cost him influence later. He is not a hater, worked closely with both Kennedys and could easily do so again with Bobby. But he is irked by R.F.K.'s money, modishness and restoration syndrome. "You cannot have two Camelots," he says. "There was only one. Others can only be pretenders." And there is also the grating realization that Kennedy, who has sought to expropriate so much of Humphrey's old ideological turf, was a rather conservative Harvard undergraduate when Humphrey was already an established liberal...
Thomson's four years at Yale were mostly spent at the Yale Daily News, which he edited as a senior. "The chairman controlled editorial policy," Thomson said with a smile, "so although most of our members were conservative Republicans, we came out eloquently for Adlai Stevenson...
Rising for a few additional remarks. Sullivan noted that his physical fitness director at the "Y" was waiting outside to run off the dinner. And then he quoted Adlai Stevenson: "'The best of one's life is one's friends'--tonight has proven the truth of that remark...
...rights. Where was the Senator about a month ago, when the civil rights (housing) bill came up for a vote? At that time, both parties needed votes and the Senators were rushing back to the Senate-except Senator McCarthy. He stayed in New Hampshire trying to get votes. Adlai Stevenson would not have stayed away...