It's too bad that you don't see politicians the caliber of Stevenson, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Humphrey, etc anymore... the 1950s were a good time for America, when the people actually trusted their government to do the right thing. Now, people are crying socialist at their own president!
I find all the comments here comparing Stevenson to Barack Obama a trifle odd, it was a very different time and a very different Democractic Party, in fact the area of the country that voted most heavily for Stevenson was the then segregated South, there are certainly points of similarity but really its apples and oranges.
@TheKSE1 One could have in 52'. Apparently, Stevenson had ticked off both J. Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy because he was sick of their red-baiting, and they proceeded to smear him before the election. By 56', the economy was too good for him to have much hope, though.
Adlai the Second was a good man it seems - I read on Wikipedia that J.Edgar Hoover actually spread false rumours about him (Adlai) being a homosexual to disparage him
Right, because being from Canada means that I know nothing about American politics right? Oh wait, maybe I'm talking how Americans know nothing about Canadians.
@xitongzou Unfortunately the presidency requires more than being a good guy; I'm afraid today it requires a person to be a tough as nails liar, a thief, and a murderous warmonger. That's what we've enjoyed for the most part ever since the planned by committee murder of John F. Kennedy.
It is workable, its just has been twisted and turned by the media and propganda you have been fed since you were young. You live by fear that the government has creaed of false horrors and your eyes are shielded into thinking that their is nothing better out there that what we have in America.
Jill1993A, YOU'RE the perpetual loser, just like nigun2, and you always will be. Dumping on Stevenson won't change that, no matter what. Now why don't you go back to the asshole you came out of (your own mouth). Jill1993A = another nobody loser on the internet.
whats wrong with communism? you do know what Russia and all the other countries claiming to be communist are not really communist right? Communism was a vision in the late 1800s of a Utopian society where everyone had equal oportunity and freedoms.
I can't really speak to any election before 1932, but assuming the unfortunate deaths of FDR, JFK and RFK remain... Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 Harry Truman 1945-1953 Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 Hubert Humphrey 1969-1977 Edmund Muskie 1977-1985 Ted Kennedy 1985-1993 Bill Clinton 1993-2001 Al Gore 2001-2009 Barack Obama 2009-2017 IN GOD WE TRUST
How the 20th Century should have looked: Alton Parker 1905-1913 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 James Cox 1921-1929 Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 Franklin Roosevelt 1933-1945 Harry Truman 1945-1953 Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961 John Kennedy 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 Hubert Humphrey 1969-1977 Terry Sanford 1977-1985 Walter Mondale 1985-1993 Bill Clinton 1993-2001
No. I think America would still be great today if Kennedy had not been assassinated. I have him serving until 1963 and FDR serving until 1945 because I can't prevent their deaths. If I could have it my way even more, FDR would serve from 1933-1949 and JFK 1961-1969.
Oh, I mostly disagree for reasons too lengthy to post here; here's my list: Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 William H. Taft 1909-1917 Charles Evans Hughes 1917-1925 Calvin Coolidge 1925-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1941 Wendell Willkie 1941-1949 Henry Wallace 1949-1953 Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy 1961-1969 Hubert Humphrey 1969-1977 Ronald Reagan 1977-1985 Jerry Brown 1985-1993 Al Gore 1993-2001 Ron Paul 2001-
I can't really speak to any election before 1932, but assuming the unfortunate deaths of FDR, JFK and RFK remain... Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 Harry Truman 1945-1953 Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 Hubert Humphrey 1969-1977 Edmund Muskie 1977-1985 Ted Kennedy 1985-1993 Bill Clinton 1993-2001 Al Gore 2001-2009 Barack Obama 2009-2017
I can't really speak to any election before 1932, but assuming the unfortunate deaths of FDR, JFK and RFK remain... Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 Harry Truman 1945-1953 Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 Hubert Humphrey 1969-1977 Edmund Muskie 1977-1985 Ted Kennedy 1985-1993 Bill Clinton 1993-2001 Al Gore 2001-2009 Barack Obama 2009-2017
That's just as likely as it being JFK 1961-1969, RFK 1969-1977 and Teddy 1977-1985 happening if both John and Robert Kennedy were never assassinated. And I thought I was a wishful thinker!
@lineplungingfool Carter made promises to both the evangelical and homosexual communities and ignored both once he was elected. Not saying he didn't do well in everything else, but right there is typical politician-like activity
Far from Adlai. Adlai was all brains. Obama actually has charisma to go with brilliance. Look at his fundraising. Adlai lacked it. John Kerry Lacked it. Bill CLinton had it. Obama also has the ability to explain the harmful Republican policies in a way that the average voter understands. ITs not a binch of intellectual gobbledy-gook. Besides Goerge Bush is Obama's Biggest asset. THe last 8 years have proven America cannot afford 4 more years Of Bush policies.
Adlai Stevenson was amazing. He was an intelligent orator that would have led America to better days. The country missed a great opportunity in 1952. 1952 will go down in history along with 1876, 1904, 1920, 1968, and 2000. Eisenhower had none of these qualities. He never held a political office in his life. The only thing good about Eisenhower was that he was a moderate Republican.
I agree with the Bad part but only with Bush not SO much with Nixon. At the very least, Nixon passed some go programs for the country that are still around and that help people.Bush has NOTHING.
Nixon aslo has the EPA, Welfare Reform,Drug Rehab Programs, SALT I and II with the Soviet Union. I'm a Democrat for Obama by the way, which (I hope) says a lot. Bob Dole even said that Nixon would be considered a LIBERAL today in politics. Dole was the head of the RNC during Nixon's Presidency. I'll stop wriing now.
Adlai, I love you madly! My dad never recovered from the '52 and '56 elections. I agree with billyguns2 that both of these men are a far sight better than anything we have today. Alas.
Yes, Eisenhower turned out to be one of our best presidents, but Adlai was a giant compared to the pitiful pygmies running for office today. There are no more statesmen, just pathetic stooges of the military-industrial-New World Order complex. It's all rigged.
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Yep. Adlai flogging the welfare state at our expense. Nothing new under the sun...all the '08 Dem would-be Presidents say the same, only the price tags are higher & the reach of Big Government longer.
Waldo: Well even if he's flogging it, can't you admit that it was an original idea when he made this statement. Unlike politicians today who just repeat the same thing as you've said. What ever happened to the type of politicians from the 40s and 50s?
This looks pretty good. Glad for Youtube would of hate to miss your video.
iiiears 1 week ago
His nose looks weird.
Atheist2006 5 months ago
Welcome to America bitches
MrSouthphillyitalian 1 year ago
It's too bad that you don't see politicians the caliber of Stevenson, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Humphrey, etc anymore... the 1950s were a good time for America, when the people actually trusted their government to do the right thing. Now, people are crying socialist at their own president!
xitongzou 1 year ago 5
@xitongzou
It was still rough and tumble politics. Kennedy was accused of bribing Virginia police officers.
iiiears 1 week ago
I find all the comments here comparing Stevenson to Barack Obama a trifle odd, it was a very different time and a very different Democractic Party, in fact the area of the country that voted most heavily for Stevenson was the then segregated South, there are certainly points of similarity but really its apples and oranges.
LastFreedomFighter 1 year ago
A good, solid politician. Much like Barack Obama, Stevenson was an Illinois intellectual. But no Democrat was going to beat Eisenhower in 52 or 56.
TheKSE1 2 years ago 3
@TheKSE1 One could have in 52'. Apparently, Stevenson had ticked off both J. Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy because he was sick of their red-baiting, and they proceeded to smear him before the election. By 56', the economy was too good for him to have much hope, though.
Tokopol 5 months ago
You are not just ignorent.... you are a low class creep Jill.
WolcottOakTree 2 years ago
A great man.
brisco42 2 years ago
Adlai the Second was a good man it seems - I read on Wikipedia that J.Edgar Hoover actually spread false rumours about him (Adlai) being a homosexual to disparage him
Dadutta 2 years ago 4
Un fact he (Hoover) was a Homosexual.
schusterlehrling 2 years ago 2
Yes, and that makes Hoover an even bigger Hypocrite.
Dadutta 2 years ago 2
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TylerHinds 2 years ago
Here's a man who would've protected our American democracy from Soviet police-states, too bad for the "Red Scare."
harn51 2 years ago 3
As a politician, I'd agree with you, but as an ambassador, he was (under Kennedy's direction) absolutely brilliant.
gatsby4856 2 years ago
Right, because being from Canada means that I know nothing about American politics right? Oh wait, maybe I'm talking how Americans know nothing about Canadians.
xitongzou 3 years ago 4
@xitongzou yay
littlelogic92 2 years ago
Dukakis is a good guy. What did he ever do wrong, besides being swiftboated by the repubs?
xitongzou 3 years ago 8
@xitongzou Unfortunately the presidency requires more than being a good guy; I'm afraid today it requires a person to be a tough as nails liar, a thief, and a murderous warmonger. That's what we've enjoyed for the most part ever since the planned by committee murder of John F. Kennedy.
billyguns2 1 year ago
Hey Jill, You are quite rude. I take you are a Republican. Don't like those fancy book-learning Liberals do you?
Ikedogcat 3 years ago 3
It also doesn't change the fact that you are jealous or maybe you think you could've won the presidency competing against Dwight Eisenhower hmm?
xitongzou 3 years ago
It is workable, its just has been twisted and turned by the media and propganda you have been fed since you were young. You live by fear that the government has creaed of false horrors and your eyes are shielded into thinking that their is nothing better out there that what we have in America.
startrooper998 3 years ago
Jill1993A, YOU'RE the perpetual loser, just like nigun2, and you always will be. Dumping on Stevenson won't change that, no matter what. Now why don't you go back to the asshole you came out of (your own mouth). Jill1993A = another nobody loser on the internet.
MayorMaynott 3 years ago
whats wrong with communism? you do know what Russia and all the other countries claiming to be communist are not really communist right? Communism was a vision in the late 1800s of a Utopian society where everyone had equal oportunity and freedoms.
startrooper998 3 years ago
Perpetual loser? He got a major party's nomination, ran for president? What have YOU ever done? nigun2 = nobody loser asshole on the internet.
MayorMaynott 3 years ago
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FDR was pretty cool, but I believe he had some sort of fascist agenda.
fdantheman 3 years ago
Are you kidding me?
RedStateProgressive 3 years ago
skaterjustin1 3 years ago
His voice reminds me of Reagan.
petergabrielfan34 3 years ago
tgbeale 3 years ago
you think kennedy should have been assasinated? :(
coulie27 3 years ago
No. I think America would still be great today if Kennedy had not been assassinated. I have him serving until 1963 and FDR serving until 1945 because I can't prevent their deaths. If I could have it my way even more, FDR would serve from 1933-1949 and JFK 1961-1969.
tgbeale 3 years ago
kennedy's assassination pushed through all of his and lbj's plans (civil rights, etc.) since it was a republican congress.
mcviggyfilet 3 years ago
billyguns2 3 years ago
You can't change the past, and I wouldn't want to..
With out Hoover to fail dismally, it wouldn't have ushered in the great reign of FDR
Basically without the Republicans to royally mess up, Democrats would not have such a great presidency.
I also completely disagree with the fact that you shortened FDR's reign
Anglicain 3 years ago
Oh gosh...not Mondale, it looks good except for Mondale. Gary Hart should be inserted in the 1985-93 allocation.
LAWSTUDENT33 3 years ago
Alright then, if RFK had not been assassinated he should have served from 1985-1993.
tgbeale 3 years ago
Hoover?
You picked Hoover over Alfred Smith
Why?
Anglicain 3 years ago
cet9280 3 years ago
cet9280 3 years ago
lol all democrats... nice
Anglicain 3 years ago
Sounds nice!
glory789 3 years ago
You sure like your democrats, boy!
Sorry, but I like Ike more than Adlai.
fdantheman 3 years ago
That's just as likely as it being JFK 1961-1969, RFK 1969-1977 and Teddy 1977-1985 happening if both John and Robert Kennedy were never assassinated. And I thought I was a wishful thinker!
Flynnster93 3 years ago
Why no Jimmy Carter? The MOST HONEST politician this century
lineplungingfool 3 years ago 2
@lineplungingfool Carter made promises to both the evangelical and homosexual communities and ignored both once he was elected. Not saying he didn't do well in everything else, but right there is typical politician-like activity
SBIMEZM86 2 years ago
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1953
Adlai Stevenson 1953-1961
John F. Kennedy 1961-1969
Robert F Kennedy 1969-1977
George McGovern 1977-1985
Michael Dukakis 1985-1993
Bill Clinton 1993-2001
Al Gore 2001-2009
Barack Obama 2009-2017
xitongzou 3 years ago 5
I think Nixon had alterior motives for opening relations in china.
Meanlevee 3 years ago
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WOW!..
You really think Obama would actually say the equivalent of what Adlai Stevenson said back in his days.
Harry Truman is probably rolling over in his grave with the sorry state of the Dems today.
Leftist garbage to the extreme.
km2711 3 years ago
Adlai and Barack can say that they have the vote of the "Thinking Man(and Woman)",but that they need a majoriy of voters.
Suprkit 3 years ago 9
@Suprkit
Ha! Good one! That gave me a much needed chuckle!!!
JubalCalif 2 months ago
His voice sounds a lot like Reagan's.
Sims2789 3 years ago
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Looks like the Democrats have found their new loser Adlai Stevenson in Obama.
sardonical1 3 years ago
Far from Adlai. Adlai was all brains. Obama actually has charisma to go with brilliance. Look at his fundraising. Adlai lacked it. John Kerry Lacked it. Bill CLinton had it. Obama also has the ability to explain the harmful Republican policies in a way that the average voter understands. ITs not a binch of intellectual gobbledy-gook. Besides Goerge Bush is Obama's Biggest asset. THe last 8 years have proven America cannot afford 4 more years Of Bush policies.
shanebarrow1 3 years ago 3
Adlai Stevenson was amazing. He was an intelligent orator that would have led America to better days. The country missed a great opportunity in 1952. 1952 will go down in history along with 1876, 1904, 1920, 1968, and 2000. Eisenhower had none of these qualities. He never held a political office in his life. The only thing good about Eisenhower was that he was a moderate Republican.
tgbeale 3 years ago 4
Eisenhower was actually pretty effective. The country also missed out on William Jennings Bryan, remember him?
xitongzou 3 years ago 2
Yeah well what do you know you closed minded NeoCon? At least hes not McSameasBush.
Suprkit 3 years ago
Imagine; US President Adlai Stevenson (1957-1965)!!
stevenson52 3 years ago
I think I would have voted for Stevenson had I been alive at the time, but at least Ike didn't turn out anywhere near as bad as Nixon or Bush.
Filby 3 years ago
I agree with the Bad part but only with Bush not SO much with Nixon. At the very least, Nixon passed some go programs for the country that are still around and that help people.Bush has NOTHING.
Suprkit 3 years ago
That's true. I don't think very highly of Nixon, but at least he started OSHA and opened up relations with China...
Filby 3 years ago
Nixon aslo has the EPA, Welfare Reform,Drug Rehab Programs, SALT I and II with the Soviet Union. I'm a Democrat for Obama by the way, which (I hope) says a lot. Bob Dole even said that Nixon would be considered a LIBERAL today in politics. Dole was the head of the RNC during Nixon's Presidency. I'll stop wriing now.
Suprkit 3 years ago
I think Nixon's social views were too traditionalist to call him a liberal, but yeah, he was a lot less far-right than the modern GOP.
Filby 3 years ago
niggas
oheneys 4 years ago
jeje yo me llamo adlay, y ese nombre es por el
celmand 4 years ago
Adlai, I love you madly! My dad never recovered from the '52 and '56 elections. I agree with billyguns2 that both of these men are a far sight better than anything we have today. Alas.
davevanfunk 4 years ago
Yes, Eisenhower turned out to be one of our best presidents, but Adlai was a giant compared to the pitiful pygmies running for office today. There are no more statesmen, just pathetic stooges of the military-industrial-New World Order complex. It's all rigged.
billyguns2 4 years ago
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Yep. Adlai flogging the welfare state at our expense. Nothing new under the sun...all the '08 Dem would-be Presidents say the same, only the price tags are higher & the reach of Big Government longer.
Waldocounty 4 years ago
Waldo: Well even if he's flogging it, can't you admit that it was an original idea when he made this statement. Unlike politicians today who just repeat the same thing as you've said. What ever happened to the type of politicians from the 40s and 50s?
NGS712 4 years ago 3
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adlai = suck
ike is the best president
MyturBinisdrty 4 years ago
Ohh Adlai...
theabolitionist 4 years ago