Adlai Stevenson, A Man of Class

Meeting Adlai Stevenson at the wedding of his son and the daughter of Nathaniel Owings, playing the harpsichord

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[terranbinks]

Well Miss Margaret,,I think your video showed a lot of "class"...I took when I think of a candidate who had class would think of Gov.Stevenson..My father who was just a working steelworker almost used to revere the Gov,,because he thought him very intelligent and a person who would treat the working person with regard and class...

Thank you for posting,,,it also showed lots of calss..

[atree3]

thanks for this interesting response

[mark2299]

OK. It's decided. You're fabulous.

[atree3]

I'm laughing

[bduhe219]

,,,but what do i know. i'm only a political novice and can only speak on what a great man stevenson was. it's too bad not many people know of him and what a wonderful liberal intellectual he really was. charm (many women wer in love whitn his man...you would never know it to look at him) and at the same time many thought he was homosexual...just think what a 360 that is..lol. i admire him so much. too bad not enough people know who he was today. rest in peace to a true peacemaker.

[bduhe219]

...very well in my opinion and i think could have been a powerful force against communisum...although many people thought him soft on communist and even as a subversive. he was i think a vaselator on that...he thought that we had to live with communist and isolationist polocy would eventually dismantal that ideology. on that i'm not sure if it was the reason it finally failed. i always thought a communist dictatorship was the fall of that ideology and not the political caus eitself....

[bduhe219]

..or oboma. it is a pitty. i think intellectuals take too oong to make decisions, that maybe the reason people don't really want them as their president. as for stevenson, his intelect and demenor was that of a diplomat. he was a negotiator at heart. he really should have been secretary of state for kennedy..he actually thoght he would be chosen, but kennedy thought him unsuitable at that post. vietnam may have been avoided..he was known to have oppose the war. he showed stregnth against russia.

[bduhe219]

i'll comment on this only because i admire adlai stevenson so very much. he has been a political icon in my eyes form childhood, and im 44yrs old. i never lived through the 1950's or early 1960's to know what people relaly thought of the man. i only know of him trough books, youtube post and internet post or sites. i think he was too much of an intellectual to be an effective president..i don't think we elect intelletuals in this country since wilson. kennedy was a suedo-intellectual as was fdr.

[lincjan77]

naizret--'class,' in this case, has nothing to do with snobbishness or elitism,as you seem to think. it has to do with good manners, gentlemanly behavior, and kindliness--traits which you yourself seem to lack in calling a woman 'a pseud,' a woman you don't even know.

[terranbinks]

Just surfed in and read naizret's comment..I don't think it's a prerequiste for a President to have class, per se,but thank God we finally got one that has a brain..The country deserves it! I think he too has class..

[naizret]

Since when is "class" a prerequisite for the presidency? Only a pseud who lives in Big Sur would think so.

[atree3]

dig a hole

wrap me in silk

lower me

pile in the dirt

go party