Oct 17, 2022 · Faced with pressure from his top aides to defend the U.N. ambassador from harsh attacks in the media, President Kennedy writes a letter to Stevenson, carried to New York by White House aide Arthur Schlesinger.

Oct 28, 2022 · Kennedy then secretly orchestrated a political attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had advised the president to make the missile deal, in a controversial article published by the Saturday Evening Post, according to private letters published for the first time today by the National Security Archive. The correspondence between a co ...

Oct 17, 2022 · On October 16, 1962, the day the CIA briefed President Kennedy on the existence of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba, Kennedy met privately with his ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson. Kennedy informed Stevenson that the initial consensus of his advisors, which the president supported, was to launch a series of airstrikes to take ...

Oct 16, 2022 · On Dec. 5, 1962, Adlai Stevenson, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, received a letter from then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy about a story that was to circulate in the Saturday...

This folder is part of an addition to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, and consists of items that were recovered by the National Archives and Records Administration on behalf of the Kennedy Presidential Library from the estate of Robert L. White.

Ambassador Stevenson thought that we should institute a blockade, and when the Russians rejected our demand for a missile standstill in Cuba, we should defer any air strike until after we had talked to Khrushchev.

Wednesday morning, 17 October, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson encouraged the President to talk directly with Khrushchev in order to “afford a chance of uncovering his motives and objectives far better …

Oct 29, 2012 · In his book “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963,” Robert Dallek writes: “(Kennedy) watched a television confrontation at the U.N. between Stevenson and Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin.

Oct 28, 2023 · This folder also contains a report for President Kennedy on the various departments and agencies of the Federal Government and a copy of a United Nations draft resolution, "United Nations Development Decade," which was intended to promote economic development in underdeveloped nations.

Jan 22, 2001 · Steven Culp (Robert F. Kennedy) turn back time to portray the United States’ cast of characters involved in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Fairman, who plays Adlai Stevenson, the U.S....