Editing Adlai Stevenson II (section)

===Kennedy assassination and Vietnam War===

During his time as UN ambassador, Stevenson often traveled around the country promoting the United Nations in speeches and seminars. On these trips, he frequently faced opposition and protests from groups skeptical of the United Nations, such as the right-wing [[John Birch Society]]. On October 25, 1963, Stevenson spoke in [[Dallas, Texas]], where he was heckled and spat upon by unruly protestors led by retired General [[Edwin Walker]]'s "National Indignation Convention". At one point a woman hit Stevenson on the head with a sign, leading Stevenson to remark "is she animal or human?", and telling a policeman "I don't want her to go to jail, I want her to go to school."<ref>{{cite book|author=James McEnteer|title=Deep in the heart: the Texas tendency in American politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nc4mlgcCRa4C&pg=PA114|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood|page=114|isbn=9780275983062}}</ref> Afterwards, Stevenson warned President Kennedy's advisers about the "ugly and frightening" mood he had found in Dallas, but he did not discuss his concerns directly with Kennedy before the president's visit to Texas in late November 1963.<ref>(Baker, p. 429)</ref> On November 22, Stevenson was attending a luncheon held by the Chilean ambassador when he was informed that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. He told friends and aides "That Dallas! Why, why, didn't I insist that he not go there?"<ref>(McKeever, po. 539)</ref>

After President Kennedy was assassinated, Stevenson continued to serve in his position as ambassador to the UN under President [[Lyndon Johnson]]. As the country moved toward the 1964 presidential election, the [[Vietnam War|war in Vietnam]] became an important campaign issue. The Republican presidential candidate, Arizona Senator [[Barry Goldwater]], advocated victory in Vietnam—a [[rollback]] strategy that Johnson denounced as tantamount to nuclear war. Stevenson was not a major player on the Vietnam issue. He did support Johnson publicly and in private because he believed in the [[containment]] of communism, but he also wanted to start negotiations with North Vietnam through the United Nations, which Johnson rejected.<ref>Seymour Maxwell Finger, ''Inside the World of Diplomacy: The U.S. Foreign Service in a Changing World'' (2001) p 63</ref>