Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thorns in the Ivy. At midweek, in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson at the ivy-colonnaded University of Virginia's decidedly nonpartisan Founder's Day, Stevenson launched a thoroughly partisan attack on the President. (Such is his prestige in academic circles that he is probably the only politician who would try and not be condemned for such daring.) In his text, sent ahead by special delivery to Washington correspondents, Stevenson also made three barbed references to his prime personal and political foe, Richard Nixon. But at the last moment he edited out Nixon's name, referred...
Holes in the Road. Stevenson plans to continue his speechmaking at selected forums. This week in Washington, he will go before the American Society of Newspaper Editors on a three-man panel to diagnose "the role of the opposition" (co-panelists: British Labor Party Chief Hugh Gaitskell, Canada's ex-Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson). At week's end he will Meet the Press...
...turning point-and Stevenson's major decision-hinges on the West Virginia primary May 10. If Jack Kennedy sweeps the state, some of Stevenson's closest advisers will urge him to endorse Kennedy. They argue that support from Stevenson might be enough to put Kennedy well ahead of the pack, soften the feud over religion. Then, if Kennedy should falter at the convention, Stevenson could not be blamed as a holdout, and Kennedy, in turn, might throw his votes to Stevenson...
...other hand, if Kennedy loses West Virginia, Stevenson's chances would surge. But so would those of the other hopefuls. Stevenson well knows the odds would be against him. Gone are some of his biggest assets and best supporters of yesteryear. He has no functioning organization. He has no support among labor chiefs, scant support among organization Democrats. In his home state of Illinois, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, state Democratic boss, opposes him because he carried the state ticket to defeat in 1956. And Harry Truman, for whatever it is worth, snorted in Manhattan last week that...
...hardheaded calculations do not necessarily apply to Stevenson...