Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick Nixon won 193,000 votes of confidence...
...Stevenson was under heavy pressure last week to endorse Kennedy, and one persistent Washington story had it that much of the pressure came from the Kennedy camp itself. According to one version, Stevenson has been served with a polite ultimatum by a Kennedy lieutenant: Come out for Kennedy before June 1, when an endorsement will do the most good, if you want to be Secretary of State...
...trouble began in 1952, says Harry Truman, when he summoned Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to Blair House and offered to support him for the Democratic presidential nomination. Adlai just could not make up his mind. Months later, Truman gave up in disgust and switched to Vice President Alben Barkley. Then Adlai called and asked: "Would you object if I agreed to run?" At that, says Truman, "I blew up. I talked to him in language I think he had never heard before...
Thus, in a Look Magazine excerpt from his new book, Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman this week explains his longstanding dislike of Adlai Stevenson, and at the same time, takes a neatly timed swipe at Stevenson's chances for the 1960 nomination. He agreed to support Stevenson in 1952, he says, but he was sorry afterward. Stevenson's campaign, Truman claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently...
Then Harry Truman undertakes the most breathtaking version of history that even he has ever ventured: He was really trying to help Stevenson in 1956 by declaring against him! "Long before the Democratic Convention opened," wrote Truman, he began to see signs "that Stevenson was still embarrassed by this farmer from Missouri." For this reason, he decided to make it easy for "Stevenson to dissociate himself from me politically." And for this reason alone, says Truman, he swung his support to New York's Governor Averell Harriman. "Any ties that Stevenson thought he had with me, or thought...