Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
Stevenson, Adlai E. Speech at the Gridiron Club Dinner, 13 Dec. 1952. The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, edited by Walter Johnson, vol. 4, Little, Brown, 1974, p. 251.
One of the grandest compromises of the new nation of America was the placement of the National Capitol in what is now Washington DC. Virginia and Maryland seemed to be the big winners so far as access was concerned.
This was a very clever play on a slogan that Las Vegas was using at the time to promote tourism and gambeling: “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas”
Once Cheney became Vice President he also became very furtive, secretive legalistic, warlike, and power hungry characteristics which were unlike what he exhibited as a Congressman and as Secretary of Defense. Scowcroft had worked with and for Cheney and had been one of his biggest supporters.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN. He was the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, and he won the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.
