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  • Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn, didn't think much of the committee, didn't support it. other senators did join, I've forgotten which ones. Some of the I could find out who they were; it's in the record. M: Yes. H: I remember Adali Stevenson
  • FOR THE ENTIRE M3:ETING The President of the Un~ted States, Presiding Th~ Speaker of the Ho;ise of Representatives Secretary Rusk Secretary McNamara Secretary Dillon Ge=ieral Taylor, JCS .A:rnbas sador Stevenson Gem~ral Cari:er, Acting Director
  • -- II -- 3 P: And stick to their guns. F: Did you get the feeling that Johnson was lukewarm in his support for Stevenson in 1952 or 1956, or did he do about what he could? P: I thought he did all he could. I never had any other feeling. I was very
  • . The only question was whether Stevenson would be able to hold on to some pledged or semi-pledged Kennedy votes to make it a deadlock on the first ballot. Only in that case,in my opinion, did Johnson or Symington have any chance to become President. LBJ
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WICKER -- I -- 3 Lyndon Johnson for president in 1960. But I remember, at that time, I was very much for the renomination of Adlai Stevenson. F: Yes. W: And I remember arguing frequently with Silliman, who, as you know
  • in the last twenty-five years. I remember when Adlai Stevenson died, there wasn't much time between the time we got word that he died and Lyndon Johnson saying, "I want to go on television, live, with a statement about Adlai Stevenson." And I remember Dick
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 came rather belatedly. So there were some others that the people knew better, namely Stevenson, and Symington, and certainly
  • a grant for Oral History of Eisenhower and Stevenson, and he said it would be nice if you did something like that for Harry Truman, and a couple of years later we got a good application and did. in keeping his hands off of it and so did his staff. But he
  • of the suggestions of Mr. Stevenson that were not taken. But I think he agreed with the final action, so I don't think there was any real decision that way. But during this thing, as it was going along, there were clearly differences of views put forth. I think
  • . about four. My guess is that Kennedy got The others were for Johnson and votes for Hubert Humphrey and one or two for Adlai Stevenson. So Utah was split all over the place. The other thing that I remember quite well is that of being invited up
  • to show you how he operated. I was on a trip around the world, on leave, when he appointed me to this post as ambassador to the United Nations, and I was in Rome when Stevenson died, and I was Ambassador. in Beirut when Goldberg was made the Then when I
  • , and ftnbassador Stevenson's UN speech. Sde’s p rin c ip a l concern obviously ■ whether o r not we contemplated additional re ta lia to ry measures in absence • ' fu rth e r North Vietnamese o r ChiCom provocation. He was assured U .S . had no in te n tio n
  • made available to the c2..ndi.d.ates. fa 1930, G cvernor· Stevenson was tcle9hc:.1.eci by Secretary Duiles. or.. ly o:·iefing, however, was conducted. c:.t CIA and contained only intelli;ence, as opposed to policy infor~ation. His In 1960, )·.. llen
  • and Barbis f 1 Defense: Secretary McNamara, General Taylor, Mr . McNaughton White House: Mr. McGeorge Bundy and Mr. Forrestal Ambassador Stevenson and Ambassador Thompson CIA: Mr. McCone and Mr. Colby Prior to the President's arrival
  • , from essentially either window-dressing for the campaign--"See how many intellectuals I got to sign my advertisement?"--which Kennedy had developed, I think, initially with the response to the effort of the popularity of Stevenson on the campus. It had
  • we a l l thought that i f there was going to be any opposition it probably \'1as go i ng to be Stuart Symington ~1ho woul d be difficu lt. But in 1960 then \~e did become concerned. Quite obvious ly he was supporting Adlai Stevenson
  • time stayed on there. Then shortly after Ambassador Goldberg was appointed to the United Nations to take Adlai Stevenson's place--I think that Ambassador Goldberg had been told that he could, more or less, select his own delegation and he asked me if I
  • the President 3/18/72 1-4 could come to grips Stevenson that with them. at the United Nations he was confident the election had told to suggestions to Stevenson Secretary-General for direct "freeze"? in September. leaders In my view they must
  • was as we were going down Main Street, he remarked, "They won't let anybody get within ten feet of him today"--meaning Kennedy--"because of the Adlai Stevenson thing." F: Yes. R: Stevenson had been spat upon in Dallas a couple. of weeks b~fore.This
  • . ' . < PAGE TWO RUMJIR 12A 3 E C R E "T ---HAS RELA TIO N , AS AMB STEVENSON HAS POINTED OUT, TO LARGER PROBLEM OF DRV a g g r e s s io n BY SUBVERSION IN VIET-NAM AND LAOS, WE HAvE NOT RPT NOT YET COME TO G RIPS IN A FORCEFUL WAY WITH DRV OVER TH E IS S U E
  • for the nominee. Was there any chance at all of him actually beating Stevenson out of the candidacy? E: No, and I think everyone knew that. The Tennessee delegation at this particular convention in Chicago was seated just behind the Texas delegation, and so
  • personal interest, but I could not prove that at all. We had great difficulty with this because it had been used on famous people--on Senator Taft, had been used on some high staff person with Adlai Stevenson, and so on. The difficulty with the whole
  • family with lots of money. Nor was it the Adlai Stevenson kind of an aristocrat, which is a different version of the Eastern. But the pride of land, the pride of place, talk about "My granddaddy cleared this place, and the name of it's Johnson City
  • the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roche -- I -- 2 were all holding hands with Adlai Stevenson, James MacGregor Burns, and I, I guess, and Sam Beer of Harvard perhaps and three or four other people were the sort of Kennedy cadre. I never had the slightest
  • ^sador Stevenson has reported th a t tlie ra i s s u b s ta n tia l santiiasnt in tlia United lla tio n s fa vo ring rj:^ so tia tic n . T h is coiild con­ ceivably lead to n s g o tia tin s in it ia t iv e s . 3 . Any escalation— cvsn tlia re p s titio n
  • a popular President Eisenhower, as far as philosophy and programs were concerned, vast numbers were also voting for Democratic alternatives as proposed by Adlai Stevenson. the party felt this way. At least the northern liberal wing of There was a very
  • . Y ou are tr u ly a dedicated sta te sm a n a n d so o u ts ta n d in g especially ■when p ic tu re d w ith E alto n stall, D lrkscn, E m athers. Stevenson, a n d etc. Very sincerely yours. K a t h l e e n F m o R s y jf. PJS.—Y ou m ig h t te ll Mr