the lives and careers of several family members including grover cleveland vice president adlai stevenson and two-time democratic democratic illinois governor adlai stevenson second. this originally aired in 1996 and it s about an hour. c-span: jean h. baker, author of the stevensons: a biography of an american family, what s the scope of this book? guest: well, it s pretty broad and it s 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 that s adlai ewing stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic presidential 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. c-span: did you ever meet any of them? guest: yes, i did. the most prominent stevensons tha
italy had come within a hair s 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
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