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Monday letters: Is Sanders channeling Stevenson?

The floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is jammed with cheering delegates and waving signs and demonstations on July 24,1952, after the name of Gov. Adlai Stevenson was placed in nomination for the presidency.
The floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is jammed with cheering delegates and waving signs and demonstations on July 24,1952, after the name of Gov. Adlai Stevenson was placed in nomination for the presidency. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, SC

The State report on the populists’ role in the Democratic presidential contest took me back 64 years, to when my college roommates and I loved to listen to the dulcet tones of Adlai Stevenson, then running for president. Perhaps you remember him.

Maybe a similar idealism accounts the appeal of Bernie Sanders for some young people.

Janet O’Keeffe

Columbia

This story was originally published February 22, 2016 at 7:38 AM with the headline "Monday letters: Is Sanders channeling Stevenson?."

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