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Adlai Stevenson may refer to:

  • Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)
  • Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953), U.S. presidential candidate (1952 and 1956), U.N. Ambassador (1961–1965), grandson of Adlai Stevenson I
  • Adlai Stevenson III (born 1930), U.S. Senator (1970–1981), Illinois State Representative (1965–1967), candidate for Illinois governor (1982 and 1986), son of Adlai Stevenson II
  • Adlai Stevenson IV (born 1956), journalist, son of Adlai Stevenson III

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Adlai Stevenson United Nations Address

Adlai Stevenson United Nations Address taken from Great Speeches Vol. 2

Cuban Missile Crisis

Ambassador Stevenson speaking in front of the UN Security Council regarding USSR nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Governor Adlai Stevenson - Presidential Campaign Address

Governor Adlai Stevenson - Presidential Campaign Address

Sufjan Stevens - Adlai Stevenson

The song 'Adlai Stevenson', as shown on the album: 'The Avalanche' by Sufjan Stevens. Copyright Sufjan Stevens© No infringement intended

Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson - Running for President of the United States - 1956

Adlai Stevenson (Music Video) - Sufjan Stevens

My music video for the song "Adlai Stevenson" by Sufjan Stevens. I [shamelessly] compiled lots of old videos of this politician [adlai] and hopefully, sufjan fans will appreciate this video. :) Watch it all! lol "Adlai Stevenson" by Sufjan Stevens off "The Avalanche"

Adlai Stevenson 1952 campaign ad

"Music Man" ad from Adlai Stevenson's 1952 presidential campaign against Dwight Eisenhower.

United Nations Security Council - Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson United Nations Security Council Address on Soviet Missiles in Cuba delivered 25 October 1962 I deeply appreciate the spirit which prompted your message of yesterday. As we made clear in the Security Council, the existing threat was created by the secret introduction of offensive weapons into Cuba, and the answer lies in the removal of such weapons. In your message and your statement to the Security Council last night, you have made certain suggestions and have invited preliminary talks to determine whether satisfactory arrangements can be assured. Ambassador Stevenson is ready to discuss promptly these arrangements with you. I can assure you of our desire to reach a satisfactory and a peaceful solution of this matter. Signed, John F. Kennedy. I have nothing further to say at this time, Mr. President. ZORIN: [remarks to the Security Council] STEVENSON: Mr. Zorin and gentlemen, I want to say to you, Mr. Zorin, that I don't have your talent for obfuscation, for distortion, for confusing language, and for double-talk. And I must confess to you that I'm glad I don't. But if I understood what you said, you said that my position had changed, that today I was defensive because we didn't have the evidence to prove our assertions that your Government had installed long-range missiles in Cuba. Well, let me say something to you, Mr. Ambassador -- we do have the evidence. We have it, and it's clear and incontrovertible. And let me say something else -- those weapons ...

1952 DNC: Democrats draft Adlai Stevenson to face Ike

Reluctant Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson won the last major party nomination that required more than one ballot.

US Democrats - Adlai Stevenson 1956 Video 1

US Democrats - Adlai Stevenson 1956 Presidential Election Commercial

207 news items

CBC.ca

Canada.com
Wed, 16 May 2012 11:18:55 -0700

With less than 24 hours left before Canadian Pacific's annual meeting - the one in which shareholders will be asked to choose between the board slate presented by CP versus that put forward by activist shareholder Pershing Square Capital Management ...
 
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
Fri, 11 May 2012 08:31:34 -0700

The Black Book consists of anecdotes, stories, maxims, and humor collected by five generations of one prominent political family finally compiled by the most recent in the line, former United States Senator Adlai Stevenson III. From a loose-leaf binder ...
 
Yahoo! Sports
Thu, 17 May 2012 21:04:55 -0700

11 Adlai Stevenson (4:30 pm) Including a 10-0 win against Walton in the first round, Francis Lewis (15-3) has outscored its last four opponents by a combined score of 43-1. Senior Bianca Concepcion, who batted .596 with 21 RBI in league play, ...
 
Chicago Daily Herald
Tue, 08 May 2012 06:41:06 -0700

It was Adlai Stevenson who first proposed televised candidates' debates during the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign. (Likewise, Stevenson's great-grandfather, Jesse Fell, had convinced his friend Abraham Lincoln to initiate the Lincoln-Douglas ...

Uncovered Politics

Uncovered Politics
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:38:20 -0700

Some believed he was a stalking horse for Adlai Stevenson — an argument Morse never went out of his way to deny. “If I wasn'ta candidate,” he said, “I would still be for Stevenson.” A few observers were convinced that the unpredictable Oregon senator ...

New York Times (blog)

New York Times (blog)
Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:07 -0700

Thanks to your help, some of those extras — the bow-tie-clad gentleman to Robert Kennedy's right in one picture, the photographer to Adlai Stevenson's left in another, the man behind the candelabra in a third — are now fleshed-out humans with names, ...

The Guardian

The Guardian
Wed, 16 May 2012 06:56:51 -0700

Other notable home-state losers include Democrats Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in 1968 and Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in 1952 and 1956. Republicans need to go back to 1936 to find a nominee who didn't carry his home state: Kansas Governor Alf Landon.
 
Patch.com
Thu, 17 May 2012 10:56:20 -0700

In the 1952 presidential election in Easton,the Republican ticket of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon received 2616 votes to the 813 received by the Democratic ticket of Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman. I also went back in the records to ...
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