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United States presidential election of 1952, American presidential election held on November 4, 1952, in which Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower easily defeated Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. Without an incumbent candidate in the White House, there was intense interest in who would win the nomination
3 de nov. de 2008 · The last was Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. Stevenson loved language and was a gifted orator. A sharp wit, he could be both high-minded and self-deprecating. In one oft-quoted story, a supporter shouted, “Governor Stevenson, you have the vote of all the thinking people,” to which he replied ...
25 de oct. de 2012 · U.S. ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson had a reputation for preferring to concede than to confront. In the first days of the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy worried that his man ...
Adlai E. Stevenson High School opened on Sept. 7, 1965. The school is named for Adlai E. Stevenson II, a former Illinois governor, two-time presidential candidate, and United States ambassador to the United Nations. Stevenson serves all or parts of 15 communities with its 42-square-mile district: Lincolnshire, Long Grove and Prairie View, and ...
Lighting the boy’s way as he grew were the accouter-ments of wealth and privilege. The Stevenson home in Bloomington, Illinois, was a sprawling a ffair in one of the best neighborhoods, bursting with treasures his extravagant father brought home from trips to Japan, Egypt, and elsewhere.
This symposium on February 5, 2008, launched Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy, a compilation of stories and analysis of the life of a great American ambassador. The speakers, who had all contributed to the book, knew and worked with Adlai Stevenson, II, at various times in his political career, from early gubernatorial races to negotiating nuclear test ban agreements at the United Nations.
On October 25th 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, United States ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, addressed the Security Council. There Stevenson confronted the Soviet representative, Valerian Zorin, on whether the Soviets had been honest with regard to the presence of missiles in Cuba.
