Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plate dinner (hamburgers and cole slaw) and delivered a ringing, one-hour sermon on the glories of the Great Society. He was back in Washington for only twelve hours before Johnson dispatched him to London as the top American in the official cortege bringing home the body of Adlai Stevenson...
...embassy in London, Adlai Stevenson taped an interview for the BBC defending his nation's foreign policy. "There has been a great deal of pressure on me in the United States to take a position-a public position -inconsistent with that of my Government," he said. "Actually, I don't agree with those protestants. My hope in Viet Nam is that resistance there may establish the fact that changes in Asia are not to be precipitated by outside force. This was the point of the Korean War, this is the point of the conflict in Viet...
Minutes later, Stevenson, accompanied by Mrs. Marietta Tree, an old friend and a fellow member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, stepped out of the embassy onto Grosvenor Square. Stevenson obligingly paused to pose for a photographer. Then he and Mrs. Tree strolled down the street. About 200 yards away, in front of the International Sportsmen's Club, Stevenson staggered slightly, grabbed his companion's arm, and said, "I feel faint." Then he collapsed. Mrs. Tree cried to the club's doorman: "Quick, come! Could you come at once and help?" She knelt over Stevenson...
Mary McGrory wrote in the Washington Star Monday that "after Adlal Stevenson's funeral service last Friday at the National Cathedral, (Galbraith) proposed to the President that what was needed at the U.N. was 'someone who knows the mood of the American people, and someone with standing in the United States.' Diplomatic experts are a dime a dozen, he said...
History will remember his decisions, not his indecisiveness. His ideas wormed their way into national policy after they had become dissociated from his name. There is no Stevenson Doctrine, no Stevenson Act to remember him by. But history cannot ignore the first man to call in a national campaign for a halt to the exploding of nuclear bombs and to suggest that the cold war was not a permanent state of nature. History will bear witness to the reentrance of American intellectuals in to political life, a phenomenon often credited to John Kennedy but begun before him by Stevenson. Perhaps...