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. Dog in the ...

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 ...

Dwight Eisenhower knew that the question would be asked, and he knew exactly what he was going to say. At the presidential press conference, the New York Herald Tribune’s Roscoe Drummond did the ...

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% ...

Richard Nixon was nominated for best spoken-word recording in 1979 for his televised interviews with journalist David ... Former presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson received two Grammy nominations.

After defeating Richard Nixon in one of the closest elections in U.S ... Retired World War II general Dwight Eisenhower took the oath for the first of his two terms after defeating Adlai Stevenson.

Richard Nixon would later apologize for how he carried his Senate campaign as he geared up for the 1960 ... Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson had an $84,000 slush fund at the ...

Adlai Stevenson, after losing to Ike in 1952. “You can’t beat a billion dollars.”—Hubert Humphrey, ... this is my last press conference.”—Richard Nixon, ...

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.

Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV broadcast in which Richard Nixon detailed Adlai Stevenson’s part as a character witness in the first Alger ...