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...Thoughts. As a first-term Senator, Jack Kennedy had a legislative record that was nothing to brag about. But his political appeal was such that in 1956, when Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw the vice presidential nomination up for grabs at the party's Chicago convention, Kennedy made a wildly disorganized eleventh-hour attempt for the prize. He lost to Estes Kefauver, but by so narrow a margin that it set the Kennedyites to thinking really Big Thoughts. Recalls Larry O'Brien (who had not even attended the convention): "After that convention, we began to realize that...
...President's direct question, but as would presently be manifest, he privately had no heart for it. Two other men among the President's senior foreign policy advisers, not present at the meeting, shared Fulbright's feelings: Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles and Adlai Stevenson. In deference to these views, Kennedy made two separate rulings which were to contribute to the fatal dismemberment of the whole plan. First, U.S. air power would not be on call at any time. Second, the B-26s flown by "our" Cubans could be used in only two strikes before...
Grisly Record. U.S. Delegate Adlai Stevenson responded by reminding the U.N. that Russia's "conquering armies are still in Poland, East Germany, Hungary and other countries-16 years after the last war." He contrasted the Soviet Union's "self-righteous rhetoric" with its grisly record "of cynical repression of freedom and self-determination." Predictably, Cuba's Mario Garcia Inchaustegui vehemently seconded Russia's call for an end of all foreign bases, even those guaranteed by treaty, as is the U.S. base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. Adlai Stevenson rose once more, found the Cuban statement...
...rates and perhaps more power for the Fed's chairman, he was sponsored by a fellow liberal, Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller. Mitchell, until now a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is also a tax expert who was Illinois director of finance under Governor Adlai Stevenson...
Increasing the Chapters. Protests are louder still in Chile. Reacting to a report by Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson that "economic stagnation continues in Chile," Minister of Mines Enrique Serrano put the blame on U.S. copper companies, announced that Congress would get a bill requiring the companies to 1) increase production by 15% yearly. 2) refine all their copper in Chile, 3) build housing for their workers. According to Santiago Radio Commentator Francisco Olivares. the Alliance for Progress could be very simply defined: "The Latin Americans have a problem, and the U.S. has a problem. The problem...