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HOW OFTEN DID HE RUN?
WHO DID HE RUN AGAINST?
HOW BADLY WAS HE BEATEN?
HE RAN TWICE, 1952 AND 1956.
HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF RUNNING
AGAINST A GREAT MILITARY HERO,
DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
I DO NOT REALLY THINK THAT THERE
IS ANY WAY THAT ADELAIDE
STEVENSON COULD HAVE WON THOSE
ELECTIONS.
AMERICANS LIKE MILITARY HEROES.
THERE ARE FEW GENERALS THAT RAN
THE DID NOT WIN.
EISENHOWER IS AN UNASSAILABLE
CHARACTER, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT
ADELAIDE STEVENSON RANDOMIZED
ADDITION CAMPAIGN.
AT LEAST A 1952 -- RAN THE MOST
EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN.
AT LEAST IN 1952.
HE NEVER COULD CHANGE HIS
RHETORIC AND COUCH IT IN THE
NECESSITY OF TELEVISION TIME.
HE WOULD RUN OUT OF TIME.
HE WOULD GET CUT OFF IN THE
MIDDLE OF A SPEECH.
BY THE WAY.
HE HAD GREAT SPEECHWRITER'S TOO,
THERE IS A WHOLE GENERATION OF
PEOPLE THAT ADELAIDE STEVENSON
BROUGHT INTO THE PROCESS.
BUT STILL, THESE WERE NOT --
HE LOST, WHAT?
IN A HIGH 40'S.
THE SECOND TIME, HE WAS IN THE
LOWER 40'S.
IT WAS NOT A DISASTER.
BUT HE MANAGED TO LOSE TO A
PRESIDENT DURING A RECESSION.
BUT YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT IKE.
HE WAS HARD TO BEAT.
THE REAL NUMBER THAT STANDS OUT
ABOUT 1952 WAS SOMETHING LIKE 11
FOUR YEARS BEFORE.
MILLION VOTERS MORE THAN JUST
THAT IS A REFLECTION ON THE DO
WE-TRUMAN CHOICE, BUT MORE, --
DEWEY-TRUMAN CHOICE, BUT MORE,
PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THESE TWO
SPECTACULAR CANDIDATES TO CHOOSE
FROM.
THIS IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF
ADELAIDE STEVENSON.
WE ALL KNOW -- I DO NOT KNOW
WHAT THE STATISTICS ARE, HOWEVER
MANY PEOPLE ARE INDEPENDENT.
THEY ARE NOT ASSIGNED.
THEY DO NOT CHOOSE ANY PARTY.
IT WAS ADELAIDE STEVENSON WHO
BEGINS, IN THIS PRIMITIVE
CAMPAIGN IN ILLINOIS, TO TRY TO
ENCOURAGE INDEPENDENCE TO
SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO IS AN
INTELLIGENT CANDIDATE.
THAT IS A PERFECT TRANSITION
FOR ME.
HIS LEGACY -- HE IS OBVIOUSLY
INTELLECTUAL.
IKE KNOWS IT.
HE BEATS HIM.
WHAT IS THE MORAL?
THE VOTERS DO NOT WANT AN
INTELLECTUAL.
SO EISENHOWER BEGINS, AS
PRESIDENT, DUMBING DOWN HIS
SPEECHES.
DID HE HAVE TO?
THAT IS MY POINT.
BUT ALSO, HOW HE THOUGHT -- HIS
LESSON WAS, PEOPLE DO NOT WANT
THE INTELLECTUAL.
HE DID NOT WANT TO SOUND LIKE
ONE.
HE WOULD GO IN AND CROSS OUR
WORDS THEY HAD WRITTEN AND MAKE
SMALLER WORDS, LITERALLY IN HIS
OWN HANDS.
THE COMBINATION IS THE GREAT
"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" SKIT.
REPUBLICANS TO THIS DAY DO NOT
WANT TO SOUND INTELLECTUAL.
THERE IS AS SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
SKETCH WHERE REAGAN SOUNDS
ADDLED AND THEN HIS AIDES LEAVE
AND IN THE PRIVACY OF HIS THING
HE SPEAKS VERY INTELLIGENTLY ON
POLICY.
ADLAI STEVENSON CAUSED BOTH
PARTIES TO DECIDE THAT IS NOT
THE WAY TO GET ELECTED.
OCTOBER 28TH, HOW WELL DO YOU