Now that youve made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all of my heart and soul. With your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job of conflict and of campaign. We will justify our glorious task and the loyalty of millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honesty. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, excepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by Richard Norton smith in libertyville, illinois. Who was this oneterm governor of illinois . For millions of americans, that is all he was. The oneterm governor of illinois. They have never heard a voice like his. They did not know that a Political Revolution was being touched off that night. For the next decade, Adlai Stevenson would be the voice of the Democratic Party, someone you would transform american politics, even though he was never s
Jackie kennedy, john steinbeck. It hence he was a very unusual, a nonpolitician and a new ways. He in many ways. Eventually, by millions of americans who proudly declared themselves stevensonians. Standing between us is this old office chair. Cabinetis stevensons terror. He had an historic stand of the american passenger to the United Nations. He was made a member of the cabinet, this is the chair that commemorate spot. Somewhat difficult relationship that he had with the Kennedy Administration. You referred to the dynasty, the stephenson political dynasty. Here on the wall or some artifacts. Whitevernor stevensons said his grandfather was Vice President of the United States. Under grover cleveland. He ran again in 1900 under William Jennings bryant. This is grandfather stevensons hat. Thank you for joining us tonight. Live from libertyville, we will work our way it over to the barn on the family farm. We are currently in the study. Next to it is a barn. This is a working farm at some
Racism that is spewed out of washington, we have a significant increase in hate crimes over the last several years and its been a priority for me and for my office to be constantly proactive around Public Service announcements, community engagement, with other city agencies and Partnership Around prevention, and prosecution of hate crimes. Weve also taken steps to eliminate the gang unit that previously existed within the office to presumptively stop using gang enhancement and stop using sentencing enhancements. These are policies that will have a dramatic and significant effect on reducing Racial Disparities in sentencing, policing and in prosecution. And one of the first things i did after taking office was to implement a policy prohibiting my staff from seeking money bail and we are the first jurisdiction in the country to prohibit District Attorneys from ever asking the court to impose bail as a way to detain someone in custody. As youre well aware, i grew up visiting my own parent
A total lockdown for the capital santiago after a huge jump in infections and in afghanistan the death toll rises to 56. 00 from attacks on a Maternity Hospital and funeral which threatened to unravel the deal with the taliban. The European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say that they will start relaxing their Coronavirus Closures as early as this weekend germany and some other states will open their borders by june 15th others though are not convinced spain for one which has the worlds 4th highest test hole plans to keep its borders shut until at least july thousands of people in england meanwhile have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and Northern Ireland to say its too early to relax restrictions and china has placed a 2nd city under lockdown this week after a cluster of more than 20 cases were discovered in
Barely your. 16th of march 29 t. Yellow vests protesters were back on parish. A famous street that they felt appeared to mice the political and Economic System they had excluded the. Shops were broken into and fires. It had become irrelevant strategy to protest without permission and in places of power where the government had never tolerated demonstrations protests that had been authorized by the government they said had failed to get results. The Police Responded with unmitigated force using military grade tear gas grenades and riot control guns. Thats you on the floor. Chlorinated to control his then one load in steam says hes been getting ready to leave when a rubber bullet from a Police Riot Control gun took out his eye. The weapon called an l b d 40 was developed for selfdefense but on this day French Police were using it for crowd control its designed to injure protesters lightly and should never be fired at the head. Do you think he could have been mistaken between aiming at yo