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President's Daily Diary entry, 2/5/1968 (Item)
  • :38a £ (7 11: Georg 32a 11:45 a Presiden Today isc woul d hav e bee n Hon Amb. Stevenson' s Bo birthday. Sherwi After th e Amb.'s death , Mrs about 30-4 0 friend s Th of hi s commissione d Ji the doin g o f thi s '' bust. . . , to b e presented t
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/16/1965 (Item)
  • July 16, 1965 The Whit e House Friday Secretary Cyru s Vance Jack Valenti Bill Moyers Abe Forta s Departed Sout h Grounds to attend Memoria l Service s fo r Ambassador ^ Adlai. Stevenson at th e Nationa l Cathedral . Accompanyin g the Presiden t
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 55, 1 June 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Stevenson had been in Dallas and had been attacked by a little old lady with a parasol. It had made humorous stories and headlines aH over the world. I looked at those opening remarks. They said, "Mr. President, we are happy to see that you survived Dallas
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/19/1964 (Sunday) (Item)
  • e c r e t a r y and M r s . D illo n to go to St. M a r k 's to chu rch with us, and when A m b a s s a d o r Stevenson c a m e o v e r about 10:15 in the m o r n in g , to talk a li t t l e b u sin ess, we s o r t o f abducted him and took him
  • LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci to St. Mark's with Secretary & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Dillons and Robert McNamaras to lunch at White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird and LBJ say goodbye to Lynda's boyfriend, Bernie
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc
  • Biographical information; work on Credentials Committee at 1964 Democratic Convention; support for Adlai Stevenson at 1956 and 1960 Conventions; JFK’s nomination at 1960 Convention; becaming a State Dept. employee 1965; contact with Senator Robert
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: OSCAR CHAPMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Chapman's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: In 1956, when he [Johnson] was kind of a dark horse against Stevenson. C: Yes, kind of. F: Stevenson ran in 1952
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/20/1968 (Item)
  • Interviewin 4:50p 6:26p 6:26p • Day_Saturda y ' 6:55pm 8:20p g Susa n Stevenson of Johnson City ' who ma y b e interested i n a job nex t yea r m Aslee f Aske t Horac mf Secretar 7:00pm Dinne p d fo r Templ e to com e to bedroo m e Busb y y Clar k
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/8/1968 (Item)
  • the press, -- he has new figures on median income, poverty, federal reserve and general economic rundown. 2:30 to 12:45p LUNCH - w/ Mrs. Johnson Don Thomas J. C. Kellam Hon. Arthur Okun Stevenson _ ' Susan ~ mf ~ JRJ "2:01p t 2:28p Departed " Mr. 2:46p
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/15/1968 (Item)
  • Mr. , 12:02p Arrive Danz Sisters House 12:11p ~ ~ Depart 12:27p Arrive " ' — ~~ ' Reagan Ranch 12:32p i Depart Reagan Ranch ^ 12:34p Arrive Main House i .LUNCH - w/ Mrs. Johnso n Susan Stevenson ________ - j Luci ' . Larry 1 i 1
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/25/1964 (Item)
  • period the existing provisions of law relating to the free importation of personal and household effects brought into the U. S. under Government orders Ambassador at Adlai Stevenson stayed in was house guest Lincoln Room Navy Mess arriving off
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/15/1964 (Item)
  • Bundy DC Dr. Goul d t o treat the President's throa t To Madiso n Squar e Garde n - - accompanie d byArrive Madiso n Square Garden President introduce d by -President delivere d REMARK S on platform were Adlai Stevenson Robert Kennedy George Meany
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/20/1964 (Item)
  • Agriculture, Orvill e L . Freema n Jame s Web b Secretary o f Commerce, Luthe r Hodge s Adla i Stevenson Secretary o f Labor. Willar d Wirt z Douglas s Cater Secretary o f HEW, Anthony J . Celebrezz e Georg e Reedy Bill Moyer s Jack Valent i Marquis Child s i
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/5/1965 (Item)
  • call them) as of 5:00 today, mjdr note d that the President had received 195 telegrams favorable to his State of the Union address last night and 30 unfavorable ones. Hon Adlai Stevenson (see Bundy memo dated Jan 5, 1965) at 5:45, the President
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/9/1964 (Item)
  • Office House t t t t f f House H.E. Doo Sun Choi, Prime Minister Bundy, and Marshall Greeene Ambassador Stevenson (returning his checked - yb of Korea and Departed 1:27 call) - NYC McGeorge 1:30 1:55 To the mansion for lunch w/ Mr Bundy, JV
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/18/1964 (Item)
  • . Michael A. Feighan Milwaukee, Wisc. Sen. Richard B. Russell Mr. Robert S. Stevenson. Pres. & Mrs. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge Mr. Robt L. Koob, Direc. of Public Affairs & Mrs. Cong. Elliott Hagan Mr. Wm P. Bell General Mgr. Wash DC Office Cong. John V. Lindsay
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/2/1964 (Item)
  • for Sheraton -Park Hotel. Arrived Sheraton- Park - to Cotillion Room of Hotel - Women's National Democratic Club dinner honoring Ambassador Adlai Stevenson The Usher Re Reception at Mayflower Hotel given by Prime Minister and Mrs. Levi Eshki President give s
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/9/1964 (Item)
  • w/ J. Edgar Hoover, Dete Deloach, (n/r - fr mansion) Adlai Stevenson Myer Feldman Return to office W Jenkins f //1:00 J. Paul Miller - Rochester, General Heaton Eddie Weisl - NYC Edgar NY - Miami, Hoover Fla. (n/f Jenkins and WJ - fr
Press release, "Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation First Anniversary Luncheon, Hilton Hotel, New York, 4/9/1964" (Item)
  • was the First Lady in the land, but after the White House she became, as Ambassador Stevenson has reminded us, the First Lady in the world. Grea t was her goodness, and it was her goodn e s s that made her so great. Let us today earnestly resolve to build
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/24/1965 (Item)
  • Douglas's Lee Whit e Press that innocent AA Sgt Buck was recently granted pardon by Pres on grounds of innocence Sen Douglas had championed his cause in To discuss replacement for A Stevenson on Eleanor To ask Pres to swear him in in October Ambassador
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/10/1965 (Item)
  • removed the gall bladder and gall bladder stone) Lynda Bird --to kiss her father goodbye -- she had to catch a plan e to retur n to her studies a t the University of Texas Dr. Stevenson (eye doctor) Liz Carpenter - - (Liz had been w/ Mrs. Johnso n
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/21/1965 (Item)
  • January 21, 1965 Sheraton-Park Hotel Thursday On the dance floor, the President stopped fo r a short private visit with Adlai Stevenson. While dancing with Mrs. Humphrey, the President spotted Medal of Honor winner. Captain Roger Donlon. He
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/24/1965 (Item)
  • May Camp David Monday Released text of ltr to Adlai Stevenson Approving for reappointment to the Board of Trustees of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation his recommendations Bill Moyer s Jack Valent i To White Arr South 24 1965 House
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • only been there a short time and I told him I thought that he could get someone who was more knowledgeable with the people of South Texas or who was better known down there. Apparently, as you know, Mr. Stevenson had been a very popular Governor
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the word-vantage points in this situation. Did you have any opportunity that you remember to talk to either the Senator or to Governor Shivers about what going with Adlai Stevenson and Stevenson's views in the tidelands and so forth meant to this part
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of thing. So he has been active. M: Did he support Allan Shivers? B: Yes, he did. M: He did support Allan S h i v e r s then when S h i v e r s B: Yes. M: Well, then, does it follow that he was against Stevenson when Adlai They are very good
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Cabot] Lodge, I worked with Adlai Stevenson and with Arthur Goldberg and othe rs, subsequently George Ball , for example, in the brief period he was there . Firs t of all, most of the men in that period of time that were appointed
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Stevenson in his campaigns of the fifties? Did you have any personal contact with Lyndon Johnson then at all? B: Very little. I knew him casually, not only because of my relationship with Stevenson, but because as a lawyer in Washington I had had some
  • ; escalation decisions; bombing of Haiphong POL; Adlai-Stevenson-U Thant initiative; bombing pauses; peace efforts
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Etsenhower had been reel ected for the second term. G: You worked in the Stevenson campaign in 1956, I understand. M: Well, we all did in Minnesota. The party endorsed him. I didn't work in it very much, but. G: Did you ever have a chance to observe
  • Humphrey; filibustering; nominating Adlai Stevenson; Alaska and Hawaii statehood; McCarthy's memory of various bills; Landrum-Griffin Act; the possibility that LBJ would choose McCarthy as a presidential running mate.
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a relationship . I had also been at the National Committee and at least knew the people in the National Committee and knew a lot of the people that were associated with the Stevenson campaign in 1952 . So the fact--not because I was any­ thing special but just
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Children in Crisis, 18-19 September 1992," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , Syracuse University Brenda A. Leath, Associate Director, National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Harold W. Stevenson, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan Jeanette Watson, Djrector of many child development organizations Edward Zigler
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in running the [Adlai] Stevenson campaign in Texas. I ran into him by chance in the airport in Fort Worth. He took me in to the Fort Worth Club, and we were having a drink there in one of the rooms. He met one of the very famous Texas multimillionaires
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who thought that he was the spokesman for the Democratic Party, and he had nothing but contempt for the congressional leadership. He had been a very strong advocate of Adlai Stevenson. So I think that the fact that Allan Shivers and Lyndon Johnson
Folder, "Kentucky Trip – May 21, 1964 – Mrs. Johnson [Clippings]," White House Social Files, Liz Carpenter Subject Files, Box 5 (Item)
  • by al'imed aggres­ sion," Ambassador Adlai E . Stevenson told the · Security Council. · "And if anyone has the il­ lusion that my Government w i'll abandon ·· the people of · Vietnam-or . that "'.e -~-1 weary of the burden of support that we a-re rendering
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • enough work for Adlai Stevenson, amongst liberals. Johnson always defended himself by pointing out that he did plenty of work for him in the South, particularly in Texas. I've forgotten just whether Texas carried that year for-- F: No, Eisenhower won
  • -Americans; Black Friday; Warren Court decisions; civil liberties fight; LBJ as a civil libertarian and a pragmatic liberal; relationship between the Humphrey’s and the Johnson’s; HHH as majority whip; Adlai Stevenson; illusion LBJ had of being VP; power
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/23/1968 (Item)
  • Mary Rather LaFaye Davis Susan Stevenson Pontenilla Lee Gregg Tom Johnson Mrs. Tom Johnson Quideo (Chinese cook) USSS Hill USSS Jone s USSS Kivett USSS W. Taylor USSS Short USSS Cosby USSS Miller USSS McCarthy USSS Mitchell USSS DeFresse Connie Girard
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/14/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird records her diary; death of Adlai Stevenson; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; University of Texas professors are guests at the LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird describes the drawings in the Trans Pecos caves that will be covered by the Amistad Dam
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • glad to see President Eisenhower in person. Johnson was over in his bedroom. (Interruption) W: The day he [Adlai Stevenson] died the news came to the White House and I remember President Johnson coming along with Bill Moyers and Okamoto to his
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • efforts were concerned with Adlai Stevenson. M: I was going to ask you about that next, as a matter of fact. Did you remain fairly close to Mr. Stevenson during the time he became Ambassador to the United Nations? F: Yes, I did with this exception
  • Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got