{"id":22,"date":"2010-10-22T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-journal\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-11-12T02:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:22:42","slug":"adlai-stevenson%e2%80%99s-public-relationship-with-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-journal\/2010\/10\/22\/adlai-stevenson%e2%80%99s-public-relationship-with-the-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Adlai Stevenson at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adlai E. Stevenson Courtesy of the Library of Congress <\/p><\/div>\n

When President John F. Kennedy appointed Adlai Stevenson as the United States ambassador to the United Nations in 1961, the former governor of Illinois and two-time presidential candidate was disappointed.\u00a0 Stevenson had hoped to the lead the new administration’s foreign policy as secretary of state.\u00a0 Instead, Kennedy placed Stevenson in a supporting role\u00a0 that focused mainly on public relations. \u00a0As a skilled orator, experienced politician, and global citizen, Stevenson seemed to offer the ideal advocate for both the United States and the United Nations.\u00a0 He exemplified these qualities in the drama surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.\u00a0 However, Becca Solnit argues in her article,\u201cAdlai Stevenson\u2019s United Nations Rite of Passage\u201d that despite the apparent success of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Stevenson felt personally defeated.\u00a0 The ambassador soon resigned himself to a role of figurehead rather than policy maker, and steadily abandoned his faith in negotiation. \u00a0By the time the escalating Vietnam War became a focal point of UN activities, Stevenson no longer had the heart to fight for a US role in the UN. \u00a0To understand Stevenson\u2019s evolution, Solnit turns to Stevenson\u2019s own words as well as testimony from his closest friends and colleagues, such as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.\u00a0 Solnit also examines shifting American perceptions of the UN during the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Go to “Adlai Stevenson’s Public Relationship with the UN” by Becca Solnit<\/a>
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This article has been adapted from a paper originally submitted to Prof. Pinsker\u2019s US Diplomatic History class (History 382) during fall semester 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n


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