democratic candidate adlai stevenson was harshly critical of the situation. we have alienated our ancient and strong as european allies, he said. we alienated israel. we have alienated egypt and the arab countries. in the united nations our main associate in middle eastern matters appears to be the soviet union. in the very week when the red army has been shooting down hungary and poland stevens and concluded i doubt if ever before in our diplomatic history that any policy has been such an abysmal, such a complete and catastrophic failure. mike was not sleeping well. his doctor was concerned the president's blood pressure was bottled up. his heart skipped beats and he suffered constant abdominal discomfort and diarrhea. the records at the eisenhower library are so marvelously detailed. i told one of the library staff daily reports of the president's diarrhea was just a little more information than i really wanted or needed. lake in the night of nov. second, john foster dulles was rushed to walter reed hospital. the next morning doctors removed a cancerous tum

his vice president was a guy named adlai stevenson whose grandfather was a future presidential candidate. stevenson was from illinois and was in favor of using gold and silver as currency. and he had been add today the ticket at the convention in 1892 to give some balance was the democrats needed to win some southern states. so you had this unusual situation where the president and the vice president are on exact opposite sides of the most contentious issue of the day. and cleveland was adamant that stevenson not know what was going on with his health. stevenson was at the world's fair in 1893 and had heard rumors about cleveland's health and immediately headed east to visit him, and cleveland intercepted him with a telegram and said i'd like you to go on a little political trip to seattle in 1893 which involved stagecoaches, trains, ferries, boats, all sorts of things. so that put stephenson out of action for a considerable time. congress at the time, the democrats, i believe, controlled both houses for the first two years of his second term, but the panic had gotten so bad by 1894 that