POLITICAL NOTES: My Deepest Secret

If Adlai Stevenson was not interested in another try for the presidency—as he still insisted—he managed last week to look more, talk more and walk more like a candidate than those on the active lists.

When Iowa Farmer Roswell Garst invited him to meet Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm, Stevenson accepted with pleasure. Under the protecting shade of a canvas canopy, the Soviet Premier and the two-time Democratic presidential candidate chatted amiably through lunch. Inevitably, their conversation turned from cold war to hot politics. Afterward, recounting it to the press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I...

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