george mcnulty

Love your knack for relating the past to the present. Thought you might like this bit from a book I''ve just finished on the Roosevelt years,etc.. Yes, and six years after my father passed, Stevenson was approached by the Russians and offered substantial help of several kinds if he would run for a third time. He politely refused their help and reported the incident in confidence to Eisenhower. John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson also rejected Russia’s offers of help in getting elected. LBJ told his Soviet would-be corrupters that we don’t do things that way over here. Whatever their short-comings, those leaders shared some of Adlai’s old fashion character.