Adlai

The closest thing to a comparison is probably something like 1952: the economy was doing quite well that year, but the Korean War had become fairly unpopular, Democrats had been in power for a long time, and Republicans nominated an exceptional candidate in Eisenhower, leading Truman to decline a chance at another term and Adlai Stevenson to do poorly in his place.

NYT > Home Page By NATE SILVER 2011

( "Adlai," said John F. Kennedy of his outstanding U.N. ambassador during the Bay of Pigs crisis, "wanted a Munich.")

A War Worth Fighting 2008

Adlai Stevenson, announced Democratic presidential candidate, accused Dulles of playing “Russian roulette with the life of our nation.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Adlai Stevenson was not a “segregationist” as I pointed out before.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

That day, Adlai Stevenson, the former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic standard bearer, announced in Chicago that he would be a candidate for the presidency in 1956.3

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

The evening of Saturday, April 21, the president and Adlai Stevenson delivered separate speeches at the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hotel in Washington.41 Stevenson described the past three years as a period of retrogression in foreign affairs and grabbed headlines the next day by proposing a moratorium on nuclear tests and channeling foreign aid through the United Nations.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Last weekend brought a delectable profile of Adlai Stevenson, who ran against Eisenhower twice and whose wit and eloquence is enshrined in the memory of a generation of Americans.

A Nazi Story That Still Surprises Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Adlai Stevenson was not an explicit segregationist.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

The governor's son, Adlai Stevenson III, a retired senator, recalled watching a sales clerk stare at his credit card for a longish while, till he finally asked her if there was something familiar about the name.

A Nazi Story That Still Surprises Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Pearson reported that Adlai Stevenson might call for an examination of the president by a bipartisan group of doctors.

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011