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Moving easily from one topic to the next and answering questions for better than an hour, Wilson interpreted Attorney General Robert Kennedy's recent trip abroad as a political move that helped "Bobby" and very few others. "The harm done to the State Department, to the positions of Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson (vice-Presidents usually make such trips) is hard to evaluate... Lyndon is madder than hell about it." Wilson noted the ever increasing part that at the younger Kennedy is playing in the present administration, and at one time, compared him to the Harry Hopkins of New Deal...
...names, but it must know by now that active officials with jobs to keep and little time to spare can rarely be counted on to contribute original and specific ideas--especially on problems so diffuse as the U.N. (Considering the content, by the way, its celebrated refusal of Adlai Stevenson's article on the ground that the Ambassador had just rewritten an old speech looks ludicrous.) Big names also tend, rather mischievously, to spend 30 inches of type on points worth no more than four...
...obvious that the old man appeals to them more than does," Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr. said last night, commenting on father's upset victory on the side of Monday's Presidential primary...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlal Stevenson, and Hubert Humphry have their little ideological world, but, even though they have the best intentions, they are aeons removed from the actual facts of today," Robertson claimed...
...trying year as U.N. Ambassador, the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson proved himself effective. No match for Russia's Valerian Zorin in cold-war infighting, and sometimes carried too far by his own eloquence, Stevenson was impressive in the role of the honest, persuasive American liberal upholding the rights of the smaller nations, crying freedom wherever it seemed in danger. Backing him up with coldly intelligent strategic planning was Harlan Cleveland. Assistant Secretary of State in special charge of U.N. affairs. Cleveland sums up the U.S. role in the 16th Assembly thus: "If you make up your mind early...