Nearly two and a half centuries ago — in an era of quill pens, muskets and horse-drawn conveyances — America became the first modern democracy, founded on a belief in ...

In these contrasting settings last week, five months before congressional election day, Adlai Stevenson and Richard Nixon rolled out the basic party lines for the campaign of 1954.

Probing the people's thoughts about the presidency, Pollster George Gallup has found that most Democrats (51%) want Adlai Stevenson to be their candidate, and that most Republicans (89%) want ...

Vice President Richard Nixon had a tough and unwanted assignment: he had to defend the Administration and the President against Adlai Stevenson's criticism, and, in passing, he had to reprove Joe ...

Ike shrugged, pointed out that McCarthy can claim to represent whomever he wants—but in this case, the voice of the Republican Party is that of Richard Nixon.

Last week, in a new sampling, Gallup reported that Nixon still holds a commanding lead (55%) over Adlai Stevenson (45%) and a slightly smaller lead (53%) over front-running Jack Kennedy (47%).

Adlai Stevenson. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images Stevenson served as governor of Illinois and ran twice for president as the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956.

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Richard Nixon would later apologize for how he carried his Senate campaign as he geared up for the 1960 presidential election. “I’m sorry about that episode,” he said in 1957.

Adlai Stevenson, after losing to Ike in 1952. “You can’t beat a billion dollars.”—Hubert Humphrey, explaining his loss to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 West Virginia primary.

Nixon inevitably won the most editorial support, though Kennedy was doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm.