The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 - National Security Archive
Washington D.C., October 17, 2022 - In a secret “eyes only” memorandum for John F. Kennedy, written 60 years ago today at the outset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson admonished the president to abandon his initial plan to attack Cuba and to consider, instead, the diplomatic option of dismantling U.S. missile ...
Stevenson, Adlai E., 1961 - JFK Library
Oct 28, 2023 · This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson. Materials mainly concern foreign affairs and the activities of the United Nations.
The Convenient Man - The New York Times
Sep 30, 1979 · How convenient he must have seemed to John F. Kennedy, who dispatched Arthur Schlesinger and Tracy Barnes to lie to him about the origins and purposes of the invasion at the Bay of Pigs. A...
UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Memorandum to President Kennedy …
Former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson had been the Democratic nominee for president twice, in 1952 and 1956, and lost both times to Dwight Eisenhower. For the 1960 race, John F. Kennedy effectively shoved Stevenson aside, edged other contenders (like Hubert Humphrey) in the primaries, and narrowly defeated Eisenhower’s vice-president ...
White House, Kennedy letter to UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson…
Oct 17, 2022 · Faced with pressure from his top aides to defend the U.N. ambassador from harsh attacks in the media, President Kennedy writes a letter to Stevenson, carried to New York by White House aide Arthur Schlesinger.
American Rhetoric: Adlai Stevenson -- United Nations Address …
Complete text and audio of Adlai Stevenson's United Nations Speech on the Death of John F. Kennedy
Viewed by many Latin Americans as, next to the president, the most prestigious member of John F. Kennedy’s administration, Stevenson—formerly the Governor of Illinois, Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, and party leader until Kennedy’s victory in November 1960—consulted with government leaders to learn firsthand their views ...
Adlai E. Stevenson – People and Organizations – The John F. Kennedy …
Returning to Chicago to practice law, Stevenson remained a spokesman for the Democratic Party, and in 1960 president-elect John F. Kennedy appointed him U.S. ambassador to the UN, a post he held until his death.
Better to Light a Candle Than to Curse the Darkness
Mar 19, 2017 · Adlai Stevenson used the candle expression in his plaudit. Thus, she was linked to the saying: [13] 1962 November 8, New York Times, President Kennedy Leads Nation in Expressing Sorrow at Death of Mrs. Roosevelt, Quote Page 34, Column 1, New York.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965) - Encyclopedia.com
May 29, 2018 · (b. 5 February 1900 in Los Angeles, California; d. 14 July 1965 in London, England), politician and diplomat who made an unsuccessful bid for a third Democratic nomination for president in 1960 and, as United Nations ambassador during the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, worked to advance the causes of nuclear disarmament, ...