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...Walter F. Mondale and Illinois's Adlai E. Stevenson. Choosing either would strengthen Carter with liberals and party hierarchs, the two groups that have remained most aloof from...
...kept handy a list of people-26,000 strong at one point-who were to be detained during a national emergency (including Novelist Norman Mailer). The Army accumulated the names of 100,000 people who were involved, even tangentially, in political protest activities (including Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who made the list for merely attending a peaceful political rally watched by the service's agents). The CIA surpassed everyone, maintaining a catchall index of 1.5 million names taken from the 250,000 letters opened and photographed by the agency. Noted the Senate report: "Too many people have been...
...Called Intrepid, Stevenson...
Well, things have changed a lot since then. Now that kind of music is known as "progressive country," and the people who put it out are among the best-selling artists in popular music--people like Nelson and Jennings, not to mention Emmylou Harris, Michael Murphy, and B.W. Stevenson. Nashville has faded in importance, and Austin is one of the busiest country music centers around, the home of several stars, and the owner of a sound all its own. Longhairs who used to wear peace medallions and listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton now wear Wranglers, cowboy boots...
...Social Scientist Moynihan puts it, fading back into the culture. They are unmoored and fragmented, a variegated group that has traditionally coalesced around a strong leader and a compelling cause-and now has neither. None of the presidential candidates stirs them the way past heroes like Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy did. No issue even faintly matches the emotion of their stand against the Viet Nam War. On top of that, they are blamed-by fellow Democrats, no less-for the growth of Big Government. In the background, there is the now familiar conviction that liberal remedies have not worked...