When Stevenson first ran for president, liberals didn't flock to his banner. They considered him a moderate. He abjured FDR's anti-plutocratic rhetoric. He was a tepid foe of segregation who equivocated when asked about dismantling Jim Crow. He retreated from Truman's pledge for national health care. He supported the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, which had passed over Truman's repeated vetoes. He didn't even belong to the premier liberal organization of the time, Americans for Democratic Action—home to Eleanor Roosevelt, Hubert Humphrey, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.—which initially in 1952 considered endorsing Eisenhower for president. However loud his support from intellectuals, in his presidential races, he never won any states other than Southern and border states.