Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...week two-term Democrat Otto Kerner, 59, announced that he would prefer not to challenge history. Kerner's unexpected decision to quit-and possibly get a federal judgeship-left Illinois Democrats with reminiscences of 1948, when Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal War on Poverty...
Like Arvey, Daley must line up a Democratic ticket strong enough to capture the Governor's chair, carry the state for the President, and run at least a respectable senatorial race against a formidable Republican incumbent-in this case, patriarchal Everett McKinley Dirksen. Also like Arvey, who steered Stevenson instead of the less manageable Douglas toward the Statehouse, Daley is believed to be leaning toward young Stevenson for the governorship despite his reputation as an independent-minded politician. Much as he would like an agreeable team man in Springfield, Daley would like a winner even more...
...things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith had no trouble working for L.B.J. after the assassination?a fact that prompted some Kennedyites to scorn him as a Judas. Ironically, other liberals had branded him a "Judas rat" only a few years earlier when he switched from Stevenson to J.F.K. But, as Arthur Schlesinger points out, there would have been no government at all after Kennedy's murder had men like Galbraith not reacted as they...
...Tall Are You?" The 1952 presidential campaign marked Galbraith's first active involvement in politics. He authored Adlai Stevenson's Detroit La bor Day speech and shaped his economic policy from the campaign train. With somewhat less enthusiasm, he repeated the role in 1956. "Tragedy the second time is comedy," he notes wryly. Along with Schlesinger and Averell Harriman, he acted as Kennedy's liaison man with the Stevensonian liberal Establishment during the 1960 campaign, did the same for Bobby Kennedy during his 1964 Senate race in New York...