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Hace 4 días · On Nov. 4, 1956, Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt and Republican Margaret Chase Smith debated as proxies for presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower.
Hace 3 días · (Actually, the first televised debate, between candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower, took place four years earlier but without them; they used stand-ins, Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret ...
Hace 2 días · The Democrats held a brokered convention later that year and ultimately picked Adlai Stevenson, then governor of Illinois, to be their presidential nominee. (Stevenson also happened to be Truman ...
Hace 1 día · Cuba’s Ernesto “Che” Guevara gestures during United Nations debate with U.S. U.N. Adlai Stevenson in the U.N. General Assembly December 11th. Guevara rejected denuclearization of the Western Hemisphere so long as U.S. bases are maintained in Puerto Rico and Panama, then he and Stevenson engaged in a sharp exchange on Castro’s policy and Washington’s action to deal with it.
Hace 1 día · It marks the first rematch between presidential candidates since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower faced Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1956. At 81 and 77 respectively, incumbent Biden and his adversary Trump are the oldest major party frontrunners in the history of US presidential elections, a significant factor as the majority of Americans believe both candidates are too old to serve.
Hace 5 días · In a phone interview, author Adlai E. Stevenson, III, a former Illinois Senator, gave me rare and groundbreaking insight into Illinois and national politics, as well as the Stevenson family’s...
Hace 3 días · In the March 23, 2024 issue of Classic Chicago Magazine, Elizabeth Dunlop Richter interviewed Stevenson about her life in the political arena, an article I recommend you go to in our archives. Richter wrote: “Stevenson has been in the public eye for over 50 years. The wife of the late U.S. Senator from Illinois, Adlai Stevenson III, the Smith College graduate participated in over a dozen ...
