Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
Master 1780 - Tape 2 Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt meets with Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in Los Angeles, California.
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT wearing fur stole, pearl necklace while exiting building at Los Angeles International Airport. Great CU Eleanor Roosevelt smiling, posing for cameras outside building. MS Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) wearing light-colored suit, alighting Delta airlines airplane, smiling and waving hat. Panning MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson walking through courtyard, smiling and talking and acknowledging camera. Panning MS Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Stevenson entering room for press conference, people standing and applauding. MSs Mrs. Roosevelt & Mr. Stevenson seated at table, posing for press photographers and newsreel cameras. MS Eleanor Roosevelt speaking: "I think he would make the best President. He's had the most experience for the questions I think that are most before us. And, as far as I can see, both in preparation and in experience, he would make the best President for the next four years."
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
(MOS) TLS middle-aged white men in suits alighting Stevenson campaign bus in Los Angeles, California. Panning CU Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) alighting campaign bus, wearing light-colored suit. Panning TLS / traveling MS Adlai Stevenson walking and talking with former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT outside building. MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson smiling, talking, seated at table for press conference. MS white male reporters seated on couch, writing notes in notepad; pan right to middle-aged white male journalist cribbing, reading other reporter's notes. TLS Mrs. Roosevelt & Mr. Stevenson seated at table, still photographers taking pictures. MS white women exiting building, "Los Angeles International Airport" written on overhanging window. Panning MSs Eleanor Roosevelt smiling, walking, getting into awaiting Chrysler car; car pulls away, white woman at wheel.
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
(MOS) MS crowd cheering while holding, waving pro-Stevenson placards on tarmac at Los Angeles, California; tilt down to white boy wearing glasses, "Walking With Stevenson" sign. MS two white boys wearing "Walking with Stevenson" signs in crowd. TLS four propeller engine Delta airlines airplane taxiing on runway at Los Angeles International Airport. MS Delta airplane passing camera during taxi. MSs Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) alighting airplane, smiling & waving, wearing light-colored suit; Adlai Stevenson shaking hands with well-wishing people on tarmac, receiving button from bespectacled white boy. MS/CUs Adlai Stevenson waving, smiling, surrounded by happy crowd. MS/CUs Mr. Stevenson shaking hands with Asian-American woman, African-American woman, signing autographs for women & children.
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT smiling, seated at table for press conference in Los Angeles, California. MSs Eleanor Roosevelt seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think you know it was set up primarily to give information about the United Nations, and it has increased international education... more can always be done... you do need in greater part international education than we have n this country at present." An off-screen reporter asks Mrs. Roosevelt of her assessment of the Eisenhower administration to date. "I would say that as far as international affairs are concerned, we have fewer friends today than when the administration came into power. I should say we have met problems as they became crises. What we did not have was a preview of world situations and an effort to prevent the crises and find answers before you were in the crises. That would be my estimate of what has happened in our international affairs."
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table for press conference with Adlai Stevenson in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt presents her assessment of the Eisenhower administration's efforts to date: "In our domestic affairs we've had a theme song which has been peace and prosperity. For a long time we were told how wonderful everything was. Just lately in your papers I find there is a slight change in that theme song. They are now preparing us for three months of economic troubles... But just at this very moment I understand from the papers that Detroit's paper considers it a disaster area b/c..." mass unemployment among auto factory workers. "The peace and prosperity is perhaps being modified at the moment." Great smile from Mrs. Roosevelt.
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks: "I said that I thought the President (Eisenhower) always said the right things until his advisers step over him & frequently wither change what he said or simply didn t do what he had said." Applause, smiles. MS Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson laughing smiling, chatting. Mrs. Roosevelt says that she spoke at a Democratic function in the Bronx the previous night. Mr. Stevenson says Mrs. Roosevelt spoke in San Francisco that morning and will speak in Los Angeles that night before flying back to New York for further engagements including one at Hyde Park. He thanks her for her "extreme exertion" in helping the campaign. Mrs. Roosevelt says there was no exertion, that it was very easy. Mr. Stevenson: "Our definitions of exertion don t agree. This is the only respect in which I don t agree with Mrs. Roosevelt."
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS/CUs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Adlai Stevenson speaks to Eleanor Roosevelt, saying that "we have been losing ground in the Cold War. The world is in a more disturbed situation now than it was a few years ago... I should like very much if you could let me have in a few words your views as to the areas of tension & the probability of improvement or further deterioration." Mrs. Roosevelt says she agrees with him entirely. "We've lost friends in many parts of the world." "That is one of the things we need badly: the feeling that we are ready to listen and learn as well as have some answers."
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MSs former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. Eleanor Roosevelt says Israel and the Middle East is the most dangerous point in the world. Adlai Stevenson says, "My own view is that it will not be likely that progress will be made in direct negotiations unless it has been made emphatically clear that the state of Israel is here to stay. That is cannot be erased and that we will not stand idly by and see this creation of the United Nations destroyed. And until the Arab states appreciate that this is a historical fact, it is not very likely that we'll make much progress in negotiations. That has been my view." Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think had we taken that stand three years, we would now be through our difficulties instead of just beginning them..."
Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt
MS former first lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT seated at table with Democratic presidential candidate ADLAI STEVENSON (Adlai Ewing Stevenson) for press conference in Los Angeles, California. The two discuss civil rights. Mrs. Roosevelt says, "I think the Supreme Court decision has given our minorities a hope that one of their great opportunities, the opportunity of education, would really be open to them. But naturally any person who really studies the situation know that that opportunity can only come as other human rights are recognized and accepted."