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 …

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 …

Oct 28, 2023 · This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning former Democratic Presidential …

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 …

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. …

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 …

President John F. Kennedy, he helped bring the world back from the brink of war. He will be remembered as a politician who held himself, and America, to high ideals. Stevenson was …

Oct 29, 2012 · In his book “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963,” Robert Dallek writes: “(Kennedy) watched a television confrontation at the U.N. between Stevenson and …

Eisenhower decided to run again in 1956, while Adlai E. Stevenson, former Illinois governor, entered the primaries and won his party's nomination. The two electoral contests between …

Oct 16, 2022 · On Dec. 5, 1962, Adlai Stevenson, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, received a letter from then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy about a story that was to circulate …