Adlai Stevenson: “Possibly, since the foundation of the Government, no statesman has…”

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Possibly, since the foundation of the Government, no statesman has been so completely idolized by his friends and party as was Henry Clay.

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Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson asserts that Henry Clay was uniquely idolized by his supporters in American politics.

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