Thanks so much for joining us for this joint effort between the american Inspiration Series of american ancestors at New England Historical genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and as, Porter Square books. Although we are open on light and a person, with limited capacity. We ship into local delivery and have curbside pickups. A special pandemic newsletter and lots of other stuff such as a visit us at Porter Square books. Com. Before introduce our guests and our moderator i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes but using crowd casts which so much my views before before and maybe many of you have it. First of all the that is recorded so you can watch it back if you wasted for part of the knights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend. It will be here at this crowd cast link as well as on our facebook page. Second of all you can really use this lovely chat window in the bottom right of your screen whats that Say Something nic
The lives and careers of several family members including Grover Cleveland Vice President Adlai Stevenson and twotime democratic democratic illinois governor Adlai Stevenson second. This originally aired in 1996 and its about an hour. Cspan jean h. Baker, author of the stevensons a biography of an american family, whats the scope of this book . Guest well, its pretty broad and its a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. And it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. And thats Adlai Ewing Stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic president ial candidate in 1952 and 1956. It took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc. , and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. Cspan did you ever meet any of them . Guest yes, i did. The most prominent stevensons that i met were Adlai Stevenso
Italy had come within a hairs breadth of voting in a communist government. Troops were in angola. The soviets in every measurable way are winning. Nine years later, gorbachev is suing for peace. They have not taken one inch of territory, which from 1970 through 1980, the soviets took eric tori under every president. They stopped dead in their tracks. It was not just military. It was using the bully pulpit to call them the evil empire. It was using Radio Free Europe to boost the signal into the warsaw pact countries and the baltic countries. Stopping the subsidy of their economy he used every available method, quite frankly. The soviets never knew what hit them. He hit them at many different levels. He basically brought them to their needs. You could sum all of that up in a simple phrase, which he used. That is peace through strength. He was willing to negotiate with the soviets once we had achieved military superiority, which we did not have when he came into office in 1980. A great wa
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