Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 24, 2011

Published by Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

A hungry man is not a free man.–Adlai Stevenson II, 1952

Adlai Stevenson ran for the office of the Presidency in 1952 and 1956 against Dwight D. Eisenhower but lost the election both times.  After his election to the White House, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where his most famous moment occurred on October 25, 1962, during an emergency session of the U.N.  Ambassador Stevenson was grandson of Adlai Stevenson I. who was Vice President under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897.

Click here to listen to Adlai Stevenson talking to the Soviet Ambassador to the  U.N. at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

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