At Louisville, Adlai Stevenson's campaign took on a new tone. In bitter terms, the usually restrained Stevenson expressed his growing anger at the opponent he had once admired.
"The opposition," charged Stevenson, ". . . is laying down a barrage of ugly, twisted, demagogic distortion." Immediate cause of the Illinois governor's wrath was Ike's accusation that the Administration had "bungled" the U.S. into the Korean war. If the Administration had underestimated the Soviet threat, declared Stevenson, so had Ike. "In November 1945 [Eisenhower] even told the House Military Affairs Committee: 'Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire...
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