This serial womanizer had a scandalous ten-year affair with married actress Marietta Tree.
Mary McGrory used the phrase "Christmas morning of our lives" to describe this man's national convention speeches, in which he promised to "talk sense to the American people." This serial womanizer had a scandalous ten-year affair with married actress Marietta Tree. William Gallagher won a Pulitzer for a photo of this man revealing a hole in his right shoe, while he won his first major victory after Dwight Green's unpopular response to the Centralia Mining Disaster. Stewart Alsop made a famous quip about this man, who promised to wait "until Hell freezes over" for an answer from Valerian Zorin. This running mate of John Sparkman and Estes Kefauver was the namesake grandson of Cleveland's second vice president, and served as UN Ambassador during the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 10 points, name this Democrat and governor of Illinois derided as an "egghead" during his two failed presidential runs against Dwight Eisenhower.
Mary McGrory used the phrase "Christmas morning of our lives" to describe this man's national convention speeches, in which he promised to "talk sense to the American people."
Adlai (Ewing) Stevenson II