With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump speech Oct. 15, 1952.

The presidential campaign had only three weeks left to run, but the Republicans still didn’t hate Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats still didn’t hate Ike. In 1952, the two-platoon system had come to ...

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In the fading light of a hot summer day last week, Adlai Stevenson and a few friends left the Chicago Yacht Club, got into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone ...

ADLAI STEVENSON and I both arrived in Washington at the outset of the New Deal, he a refugee from a Chicago law firm, and I fresh out of law school. Roosevelt’s inauguration made Washington an ...