I remember that exchange very well. it shocked people (even, obviously, JFK, who's never been one of my favorite politicians at all) because they'd all thought Adlai was "too much a gentleman" or something. but he was a third-generation Illinois political animal, which would have indicated to me that he knew how to fight, if he had to.
I remember that exchange very well. it shocked people (even, obviously, JFK, who's never been one of my favorite politicians at all) because they'd all thought Adlai was "too much a gentleman" or something. but he was a third-generation Illinois political animal, which would have indicated to me that he knew how to fight, if he had to.
Or was it that they saw Stevenson as more of an intellectual than politician. While we don't know the answer to that, perhaps, a bit of each and stronger than JFK on both fronts.
TC, The Democrats are rarely with the people. Howard Dean tried to get the Dems to go local big time. Grow Dems where they are. It's been their greatest failure. Biden does feel us. He has got COVID again. So much of the country is out of it. The people have been through so much, many truly cannot see straight. Logistics, TC, тАж through this nightmare.
In terms of racial equality, Stevenson was hardly a bright light.
During the 1956 presidential campaign, Democratic Party candidate Adlai Stevenson attempted to win this black vote by voicing support for the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregated schools, a ruling incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower had refused to approve. StevensonтАЩs appeal to black voters, however, was muted by his opposition to using Federal funds or troops to enforce desegregation, a position he adopted to avoid alienating southern voters. In addition, in the 1952 race, Stevenson had selected as his running mate a segregationist Senator from Alabama, John Sparkman. In October, African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., announced his support of the President, and on election day, more than 60 percent of black voters also chose Eisenhower. This marked a shift in party allegiance by blacks who had voted overwhelmingly Democratic since the 1930s, when many changed from the party of Lincoln to support Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although EisenhowerтАЩs rout of Stevenson was attributed more to foreign affairs than domestic, the black vote continued to be a major factor in national politics. (Theodore H. White, The Making of the President)
Democrats had a long way to go in learning to deal with The Solid South more realistically. Stevenson had followed "the common knowledge" of the time - FDR had never thought of any of his VPs as being more than a "place filler." Like John Nance Garner said after FDR dropped him in 1936, the vice presidency wasn't worth "a bucket of warm spit."
I remember that exchange very well. it shocked people (even, obviously, JFK, who's never been one of my favorite politicians at all) because they'd all thought Adlai was "too much a gentleman" or something. but he was a third-generation Illinois political animal, which would have indicated to me that he knew how to fight, if he had to.
Or was it that they saw Stevenson as more of an intellectual than politician. While we don't know the answer to that, perhaps, a bit of each and stronger than JFK on both fronts.
Yes indeed.
TC, The Democrats are rarely with the people. Howard Dean tried to get the Dems to go local big time. Grow Dems where they are. It's been their greatest failure. Biden does feel us. He has got COVID again. So much of the country is out of it. The people have been through so much, many truly cannot see straight. Logistics, TC, тАж through this nightmare.
In terms of racial equality, Stevenson was hardly a bright light.
During the 1956 presidential campaign, Democratic Party candidate Adlai Stevenson attempted to win this black vote by voicing support for the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregated schools, a ruling incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower had refused to approve. StevensonтАЩs appeal to black voters, however, was muted by his opposition to using Federal funds or troops to enforce desegregation, a position he adopted to avoid alienating southern voters. In addition, in the 1952 race, Stevenson had selected as his running mate a segregationist Senator from Alabama, John Sparkman. In October, African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., announced his support of the President, and on election day, more than 60 percent of black voters also chose Eisenhower. This marked a shift in party allegiance by blacks who had voted overwhelmingly Democratic since the 1930s, when many changed from the party of Lincoln to support Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although EisenhowerтАЩs rout of Stevenson was attributed more to foreign affairs than domestic, the black vote continued to be a major factor in national politics. (Theodore H. White, The Making of the President)
Democrats had a long way to go in learning to deal with The Solid South more realistically. Stevenson had followed "the common knowledge" of the time - FDR had never thought of any of his VPs as being more than a "place filler." Like John Nance Garner said after FDR dropped him in 1936, the vice presidency wasn't worth "a bucket of warm spit."