Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Elizabeth Stevenson Ives [electronic resource] : oral history, 1969.
Creator: | Ives, Elizabeth Stevenson, 1897-1994 | Project: | Adlai E. Stevenson project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history. | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteInterviewee sister of Adlai E. Stevenson; married Ernest Ives.
Scope and ContentsLast year of Stevenson's life; Cuba missile crisis; 1960 Democratic Convention; family homes, Libertyville and Bloomington; evaluation of brother's biographers; 1948 Illinois gubernatorial campaign; governorship, 1949-53; 1956 campaign; United Nations mission, 1961-65; family anecdotes and childhood recollections; impressions of Stevenson's personal friends and recollections of his relationships with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, Richard J. Daley, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, William McCormick Blair, Jr., Willard Wirtz, and others.
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