There are few modern historical figures I admire more than Adlai E. Stevenson ... nomination when the Democrats instead tapped John F. Kennedy. Stevenson initially refused the 1952 nomination ...

John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts as their presidential ... In the week before the convention, both Johnson and Adlai Stevenson, the party’s nominee in 1952 and 1956, announced their candidacies.

Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois dies at 90 Former ... but was defeated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachussetts. After his election, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador ...

President John F. Kennedy once described himself as an ... Roosevelt died not long after her visit. When she died, Adlai Stevenson said, “She would rather light a candle than curse the ...

Stevenson, however, could not overcome a young, dynamic Senator from Massachusetts named Jack Kennedy ... will confuse John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign with that of Adlai Stevenson ...

Called “The Farm” in the days when dignitaries like John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt visited, the Mettawa home of the late Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson II has won a new distinction.

Jack Kennedy wanted to be vice-president, No. 2 on the ticket with Adlai Stevenson in 1956 when the Democrats met in Chicago. "And me and the family, we were all rooting for Kennedy," said Adlai ...

In Maria, President John F. Kennedy and Maria Callas meet over ... United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, stands in center. Director Pablo Larraín has said that capturin ...

"Terrific," President John F. Kennedy murmured to his aides in the Oval Office as he watched the live broadcast. "I didn't know that Adlai had it in him." Like Stevenson during the 1962 Cuban ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We’ve now reached “JFK” - John ... now Senator, Kennedy was seen as a prominent candidate for the vice presidency on the ticket with Adlai Stevenson in ...

When a PAC working to elect Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran an ad during this ... Whereas a jingle in an ad for his Democratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson, was almost solemn. (You don't find many ...