Running against World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower cannot have been easy. But Adlai Stevenson brought a certain elan to the task. In a 1952 Fresno speech, he said, “I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends … that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” On another occasion, when a supporter approached him and declared, “You are every thinking man’s candidate,” he replied, “Thank you madam, but I require a majority.”