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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 97: Oct. 1‑4, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 40 (Item)

. Mr. Bowles 16. Assistant Secretary of Defense { t.J ,1) 60. Mr. McGhee 17. The Press Secretary 61. Mr. Frank Sloan 18. Mr. Bromley Smith p~Z. Amba-s-sador-Y-osL 19. Ambassador Stevenson 63. As st. Secy Williams 20. Mr. McCloy 64. Sterling Cottrell 21

Folder, "Steinbeck, John [Copies from the WHCF Subject File]," White House Famous Names, Box 9 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. My recollection is that Mayor Daley did not join the Kennedy effort until Los Angeles. David Lawrence and Bill Green still were concerned. Pat Brown was off again, on again. He had an Adlai Stevenson situation in California. We weren't locked

Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 1-9," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 72: Apr. 12‑23, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)

) See Andrew Stevenson , below. Interstate & For. Commerce " Springer) Andrew Stevenson {Staff, Interstate and Forei.gn Cowmerce) Approved Robert Brandt (Staff, House Foreign Affairs) Approved Rep. ACTION Friday April 19, 1968 MEMORANDUM

Folder, "Israel - Volume 6, 12/66 - 7/67 [3 of 4]," Country Files, NSF, Box 140 (Item)

than Dewey to support an independent State of Israel, they voted for Truman in 1948. They preferred Stevenson to Eisenhower, though by a smaller margin. - 3 - 2. 1968 As Compared With The Previous Two Elections Goldwater, regardless of any elements

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a job from Adlai Stevenson. In a sense it was a sound-out; you're always getting non-offers that may or may not materialize. People wonder if you are interested. I must confess that a non-offer from Adlai was one of the most gracious things you've ever

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gammon -- I -- 21 on foreign trips, I sensed, and I think he felt there was a real risk that Blair, as a Stevenson man, would not--might somehow mousetrap

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Folder, "Cables, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

. ' . < 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

Folder, "Cuba [Background Material Used in Compiling Plank/Chase Report] [2 of 3]," Files of Gordon Chase, NSF, Box 5 (Item)

planning to visit the United States and will probably be in Washington some time hi the next ten ca.ye or two weeks. He will be staying at the Alban Towera. I will advise Bob Stevenson of his exact plans by telegram. I think it would bo useful f.or some

Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, February, 1960," Telephone Transcripts, Office Files of Walter Jenkins, Box 1 (Item)

Youns fellow andI think ·ts ideal for what we want. ''It ls a upbJll climb here because Kennedy.got such ·a head start and now Symlngton ts making a lot of headwayand, of course, Stevenson has support In organized ·labor. Anyway, that is the pi~e

Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

Folder, "Policy Papers and Background Studies on Cuba Affair (III)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 8 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

; and it seemed to me weeks before we knew the outcome. only a couple of days. rIm sure it was But first one return would come in, and former Governor Stevenson would be ahead; the next return would come in, and Congressman Johnson would be ahead

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

weeks. We had to live off the land and find our transportation and eat at county chairmen's homes and stuff like that, and hitchhike from one place to another. paign. I worked with Adlai Stevenson during that cam- The second campaign I worked

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; and we spent money. But the advisory council met, and met, and We hired a man who had an office and who was named executive director. Adlai Stevenson, I remember "distinctly suspected their motives. He and I would ride back and forth to the meetings

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that? K: My own interpretation of it is that Arthur wanted the U.N. job, to be in the shoes of Adlai Stevenson. That he, at the time, had felt he had had the career, the glamour, and the opportunities of service on the Supreme Court and that this got him

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the time, and that is that he had been everything. He had been a cabinet member, he had been a judge in the highest court, and here was an opportunity to step into the shoes of a great man, Adlai Stevenson, and become an ambassador at a time when the U.N

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

relationship between any speaker and any audience. Short speeches are usually the best speeches, but not always. Adlai Stevenson and Winston Churchill, Jack Kennedy, you can think of hun dreds of public speakers if you really put your mind to it--and think

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, "Look. All I want is fair play. Let him"-you know. G: What did they do with Sparkman? M: Oh, they killed him. What happened is that--I guess it was Adlai. Was it Adlai and Sparkman? G: Yes. M: Yes. Stevenson and Sparkman. The Pittsburgh

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention, the one that picked Adlai Stevenson for the second time and nominated Estes Kefauver? M: Yes, I was there. F: Do you have any light to throw on why Texas abandoned Kefauver and went for Kennedy? M: I was not really in on a lot

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

liberal viewpoints . I'm trying to think who the other contenders were . F: There were primarily Stuart Symington and John F . Kennedy, and some believed that Adlai Stevenson might come back for kind of a run on it, and Hubert Humphrey . B: I don't

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Folder, "Gen PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 33 (Item)

Folder, "Hoffa, James," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-339 (Item)

ot eg July 2'J, 1964 The following letters to the President urge an investigation of the trial of James Boffa., Teamsters Union. Referred to the Department of Justice DAVIS, Leslie a. ., 105 stevenson st . ., Jacksonville., Ark., pm 7/24/64. BAKER

Folder, "Douglas, Paul H., 12/2/63 - 12/31/64," Name Files, WHCF, Box D-251 (Item)

Folder, "United Kingdom - Meetings with Wilson, 03/02/1964," Country Files, NSF, Box 213 (Item)

at the UN in New York. The arrangement he has in mind is consciously modeled on U.S. practice whereby Cabot Lodge and Adlai Stevenson Wilson questioned me have been members of the Cabinet. closely on the arrangements for handling UN affairs in Washington

Folder, "Whistle Stop [3 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

Folder, "Whistle Stop [4 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

on the national wher. Stevenson ,1acon tJoman' s College Jan's Jr. , ,faught"!r ne~-, to Juli.,. campaign· was done by car, was by plane, After all not as the vice-pre1;1idential Adlai a"lcest:::-c:1.l re'">~·., of Alabama. In 1952, she traveled he