Ray E. Boomhower

@RayBoomhower

Biographer. winner. "To Be Hoosiers" available Feb. 3, 2020. Working on book about WWII correspondent Richard Tregaskis.

Indianapolis, Indiana
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2009.

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    It's pub day for my new book, "To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character & Fortitude," available today from . Get you autographed copy this weekend: 2:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 8, 's Basile History Market; 3 p.m. Sun., Feb. 9, in Franklin.

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    O'Mahoney told Martin that twenty years ago the cattlemen “had all been starving to death and now they were all driving 2 Cadillacs and voting Republican.” (O’Mahoney also went down to defeat in the 1952 election, defeated by Frank A. Barrett, Wyoming’s Republican governor.)

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    In particular, Martin recalled a conversation he had during the campaign with U.S. Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming. O’Mahoney had told Martin there was nothing Stevenson could say to the cattlemen of his state that would sway them to his side.,

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    “The shift to the suburbs has had an effect on this country that nobody in this country has fully explored or understood,” Martin said at the time.

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    The Democratic Party also became a victim of its own success. Martin noted that as Americans prospered they had begun moving from the cities to the suburbs and abandoned voting for Democrats and turned instead to the GOP.

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    The campaign had also included a strong strain of anti-intellectualism that hurt Stevenson. “It is not an accident the term egghead became popular and is used in a derisive way to denote anybody who had read a book," said Martin. "This caught on much faster than it should have.”

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    The Democrats had been defeated because of voters’ frustrations with the Korean War, corruption in government, and the fear, provoked by Joe McCarthy and his allies, of Communists in government—the three main themes of the GOP campaign.

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    In Martin’s opinion, however, no other Democratic candidate could have won more votes than Stevenson had against Eisenhower.

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    "Stevenson was not perfect,” said John Bartlow Martin, a Stevenson speechwriter. “He made mistakes; lots of them. He wanted to be both the candidate and the campaign manager; as a result nobody managed the campaign.”

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    Eisenhower carried thirty-nine states with 442 electoral votes, while Stevenson had captured only nine states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia) and 89 electoral votes.

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    Although in 1952 Adlai Stevenson received the second largest number of votes for a Democratic candidate in history, 27,314,992, he was swamped by Dwight Eisenhower’s total of 33,936,234.

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    "The only way I can write narrative is to get right outside my body and experience it. This can be exhausting and at times dangerous. One cannot be sure of redemption.” William S. Burroughs, born on this day in 1914

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    Martin expressed shock at how newspapermen ignored this “fantastic fiction.” Anyone using simple arithmetic, he added, could figure out that Stevenson could not possibly have written every word for every speech he gave. “Yet we got away with this,” Martin said.

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    Oddly, although the Stevenson campaign attacked Eisenhower for merely “mouthing the second-hand speeches of second-hand ghostwriters and thinking their second-hand thoughts,” nobody, according to Martin, ever accused Stevenson of uttering a word that was not his own.

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    But he wondered why Stevenson behaved as he did, as when he worked with Frank Knox in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, he had written speeches for the Secretary of the Navy and must have been fully aware of “the absolute necessity of a writer to a public man.”

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    Stevenson took the anonymous drafts, rewrote them, and made them his own. “It was his way,” said Martin.

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    On campaign trips the writers literally slipped their drafts under Stevenson’s hotel room door in the middle of the night for him to find when he awoke.

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    Martin believed that the candidate subconsciously resented the speechwriters, and “so seemed to take the attitude that if he would just close his eyes we would just go away.”

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    The best theory as to why Stevenson felt this way, said Martin, was because he “really wished the writers weren’t there. He was proud of his own writing and once told a friend he wished more than anything else he had been a writer.”

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    John Bartlow Martin, who worked as a speechwriter on Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956, recalled that for Stevenson’s part, he preferred to ignore his speechwriters’ very existence.

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    “He [Stevenson] was by far the most composed man in the room—many of his supporters [including Fran] were tearful,” Martin noted.

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