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.

Oct 28, 2022 · Kennedy then secretly orchestrated a political attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had advised the president to make the missile deal, in a controversial article published by the Saturday Evening Post, according to private letters published for the first time today by the National Security Archive. The correspondence between a co ...

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 ...

Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ ˈ æ d l eɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections ...

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

This folder is part of an addition to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, and consists of items that were recovered by the National Archives and Records Administration on behalf of the Kennedy Presidential Library from the estate of Robert L. White.

Kennedy chose Stevenson to tour South America, mend relations, and plan for the upcoming Alliance meeting in Uruguay because Stevenson’s reputation for integrity had withstood the Bay of Pigs debacle.

6 days ago · President Trump has signed an executive order calling for the release of documents surrounding the 1960s assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther ...

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 in the Saturday...