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But the first dump dixon protest was two days after dixon's yes vote for the clarence thomas nomination. two days after that protest, it's clear that senator al dixon, al the pal, was starting to have a little bit of an uh-oh moment about what that vote might cost him. this is from "the daily dispatch," a newspaper from moline, illinois, from october 19th, 1991. so this is four days after dixon's yes vote on thomas. it's only two davis after he got picketed by women protesters holding the dump dixon signs at a democratic fundraiser. this is two days after that. and you see stevenson referenced...

Across the aisle. he was friendly with president reagan, who of course is a republican. he was known to go golfing with dan quayle. meanwhile, his fellow democrats, they all loved him. they chose to elevate him into leadership by the end of just his second term in the senate, he was the number three democrat in the whole senate. everybody liked him, got along with everybody, al the pal. in 1991, when president george bush nominated clarence thomas to the supreme court, this democratic senator from illinois, alan dixon, he made a personal promise to president bush that he would vote yes. that h...

Something he never thought he would have to worry about. the lead of the article is about him lining up support both personally and specifically for his clarence thomas vote from former senator adlai stevenson. it also shows him getting the explicit endorsement for re-election from illinois' other u.s. senator, the liberal paul simon, who importantly had voted against clarence thomas. al dixon would quickly go on to line up basically every other endorsement in democratic party politics, including from richard daley, the all-powerful mayor of chicago. i mean, ostensibly, dixon at this point is ...

Two days after that protest, it's clear that senator al dixon, al the pal, was starting to have a little bit of an uh-oh moment about what that vote might cost him. this is from the daily dispatch, a newspaper from moline, illinois, from october 19th, 1991. so this is four days after dixon's yes vote on thomas. it's only two davis he got picketed by women protesters holding the dump dixon signs at a democratic fundraiser. this is two days after that. and you see stevenson referenced in the headline there. that's former illinois senator adlai stevenson. the reason stevenson is in the headline n...