Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...They'd Crow!" Like Adlai Stevenson, his opposite number in Los Angeles, Goldwater found that he could draw a fervent crowd wherever he went. But unlike Adlai, Goldwater coldly counted delegates before listening to the hot promises of his friends. If he could find as many as 300, he told one group, he would push ahead for the nomination, if only to make conservatism's pull felt. "If I went in and got less than 100 votes," he said, "how they'd crow! I know what the Lipp-manns and the Alsops and the Childses would...
...traditional clear-the-rascals-out clause is particularly ill-considered; it reads "We shall reform the processes of government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...
...want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy, warned a pack of restless Iowa delegates: "You go for Stevenson, and you're dead." Husked back one delegate: "You're looking at a bunch of corpses." Final count from Iowa: 21½ votes for Kennedy, 1½ for Loveless, 3 scattered...
...mighty and famous, Sahl got the surprise of the week when his angriest foe turned out to be his TV sponsor, California Millionaire Bart Lytton (Lytton Savings & Loan Association). A Kennedy backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests enthusiastically reviewed the merits of Adlai Stevenson on the air, finally barged into the studio and woofed into the microphone that the show was not "a Stevenson rally." Complained Sahl: "I have been accused of being everything except partisan. I have never been part of a group large enough to be called a minority." The sponsor later apologized...
...moves into the second half of his campaign, Jack Kennedy starts off with what is undoubtedly the best press of any presidential candidate in modern history. Thus an old Democratic lament is finally laid to rest. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson all raised repeated charges, imagined or not, against "distortions" suffered at the hands of the so-called "one-party'' press. For "one party,'' everyone was supposed to read "Republican."' But since announcing his candidacy last January, Kennedy has not done much complaining about his press treatment...