Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...next election, however, the race was so close that both sides could claim a victory. In the official 1952 CRIMSON poll, Eisenhower carried the University by 32 votes and ran a photo-finish with Stevenson among undergraduates. But if results of somewhat broader unofficial pollings of Adams House and the Law School were added in, Stevenson emerged as the winner...
...there was another photo-finish, with Eisenhower receiving 49 per cent of the total undergraduate vote to 48 per cent for Stevenson. The total University vote, which included Faculty members and graduate students, however, gave Stevenson a 127-vote edge...
...Europe-especially in NATO-ought really to have a say in the choice of President or rather Secretary of State in the U.S. I venture to cast this imaginary vote for the Democrats with the prospect of having Adlai E. Stevenson taking care of foreign relations. He sounds like a statesman, and they are rare animals in the political forests anywhere...
Many critics, including NATO allies, wanted the matter pinned down; the tiny "real estate," said they, was not worth risking a war. Adlai Stevenson registered -his-'.'greatest misgivings." Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and New York's Herbert Lehman offered a proposal to amend the resolution so as to cut the offshore islands out of the defense perimeter. The amendment was beaten down, 74-13 (Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both absent, were paired: Kennedy for, Johnson against). In April 1955, Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend...
...well-known remark "Are there any minority groups I haven't offended?" is cute but deceptive, for he's careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai Stevenson. And it need hardly be remarked be that views of this sort have not been conspicuously absent from the recent political scene...