Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson had an $84,000 slush fund at the time, and Eisenhower himself received lavish gifts, including a house at the Augusta National Golf Club.

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential bid got a big boost from Mayor Richard J. Daley. But when he ran for a second term in 1980, Mayor Jane Byrne endorsed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Before Trump won New Castle, the city had last backed a Republican presidential candidate in 1956, when voters narrowly supported Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) over Adlai Stevenson (D), according to ...

Before Trump won New Castle, the city had last backed a Republican presidential candidate in 1956, when voters narrowly supported Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) over Adlai Stevenson (D), according to ...

The 1956 campaign began in an atmosphere of political uncertainty. A good deal of water had gone over the dam since Eisenhower had discounted Communism as a major political issue in the United States.

Democratic allies in the legacy media, moreover, used Trump’s recent rally in Madison Square Garden to further that narrative, drawing comparisons to a 1939 Nazi rally at the same venue, which has ...

President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, left, with Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, greet crowds after Adlai Stevenson conceded defeat on Nov. 7, 1956.

Trump supporters at a rally at at Wilmington International ... Trump had also been poised for the first presidential rematch since the 1950s contests between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.

Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson (left) and Sen. John Sparkman each make the “V” sign from rostrum in Chicago, July 26, 1952 as they faced the Democratic convention which nominated them as they party ...

Before the convention opened, it was clear that Adlai Stevenson, the reluctant candidate, was the man most of the most influential delegates wanted. The Kefauver and Harriman forces of more or ...

Biden’s decision came just eight days after Trump survived a July 13 assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, ... Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson ran and lost to Dwight Eisenhower, ...