Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loud & Clear. Hubert Humphrey's liberalism differs from the cerebral variety of Adlai Stevenson, for example, more because of what Humphrey is than what he says. Humphrey, a scrappy, up-from-the-precinct politician, is generally charming, garrulous, out-giving, and he responds chemically to the presence of other human beings. At times he seems to draw strength from people: often when he appears before an audience looking completely worn and tired, he appears to undergo a physical change. Energy seems to flow into him from his listeners; his eyes sparkle and his color heightens...
...sound claim for whatever it may be worth; Democratic Contenders Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington are all millionaires...
...chance for the Democratic nomination. But he is bitterly opposed to Candidates John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey because of their votes last year for the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill, hopes to pester them in the primaries, throw any delegate votes he might pick up into Adlai Stevenson's hope chest at the convention next July...
...Washington for State Department briefings before a two-month Latin Ameican tour, Democrat Adlai Stevenson again denied that he was a candidate for President, again said he did not expect to be drafted. Asked if he would accept an appointment as Secretary of State, Stevenson replied: "I would look on any office with great respect...
American Presidential campaigns rarely rise above the level of polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering. When a candidate attempts to wage his campaign on principles and issues, most often he finds himself rejected by the electorate--as Adlai Stevenson has learned on two occasions. Instead of providing a quadrennial forum of intelligent discusison of the nation's problems, the Presidential election usually degenerates into a puerile contest between rival slogans and personalities, with the real issues thrust aside as fit topics only for columnists and professors. The people seem to prefer well-meaning mediocrity to well-reasoned policy...