Editing Adlai Stevenson II (section)

==Death and legacy==
In July 1965, Stevenson traveled to [[Geneva, Switzerland]], to attend the annual meeting of the [[United Nations Economic and Social Council]].<ref name="Baker, p. 437">(Baker, p. 437)</ref> After the conference he stopped in London for several days, where he visited [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|UK Prime Minister]] [[Harold Wilson]], discussed the situation in South Vietnam with British officials, and was interviewed by CBS newsman [[Eric Sevareid]].<ref name="Baker, p. 437"/> On the afternoon of July 14, while walking in London with his aide and girlfriend [[Marietta Peabody Tree|Marietta Tree]] to [[Grosvenor Square]], Stevenson suffered a massive heart attack, and died later that day at age 65 of [[Congestive heart failure|heart failure]] at [[St&nbsp;George's&nbsp;Hospital]].<ref name=upiobbb>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZwSAAAAIBAJ&pg=1094%2C3606971 |work=The Bulletin |location=(Bend, Oregon) |agency=UPI |title=Ambassador Adlai Stevenson dies in London |date=July 14, 1965 |page=1 |access-date=May 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125182904/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZwSAAAAIBAJ&pg=1094%2C3606971 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=nlunldr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u50zAAAAIBAJ&pg=5018%2C3797737 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Nation loses U.N. leader |date=July 15, 1965 |page=1 |access-date=May 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126120645/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u50zAAAAIBAJ&pg=5018%2C3797737 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=wmstrobt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n4ZkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2238%2C2423566 |work=Wilmington Morning Star |location=(North Carolina) |agency=UPI |title=Adlai Stevenson collapses, dies |date=July 15, 1965 |page=1 |access-date=May 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308185419/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n4ZkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2238%2C2423566 |url-status=live }}</ref> Marietta Tree recalled:

{{Blockquote|As we were walking along the street he said do not walk quite so fast and do hold your head up Marietta. I was burrowing ahead trying to get to the park as quickly as possible and then the next thing I knew, I turned around and I saw he'd gone white, gray really, and he fell and his hand brushed me as he fell and he hit the pavement with the most terrible crack and I thought he'd fractured his skull.}}

That night in her diary, she wrote, "Adlai is dead. We were together."<ref>[http://nj.essortment.com/humansrightsco_rwkz.htm Human Rights Commission & Marietta Peabody Tree biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905100314/http://nj.essortment.com/humansrightsco_rwkz.htm |date=September 5, 2008 }}</ref> Following memorial services at the [[United Nations General Assembly Hall]] (on July 19, 1965), and in Washington, D.C.; [[Springfield, Illinois]]; and [[Bloomington, Illinois]], Stevenson was interred in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois. The funeral in Bloomington's [[Unitarianism|Unitarian Church]] was attended by many national figures, including President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]], and [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Earl Warren]].

[[File:Adlai Stevenson grave.JPG|thumb|Stevenson grave in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois]]
Historian [[Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]], who served as one of his speechwriters, described Stevenson as a "great creative figure in American politics. He turned the Democratic Party around in the fifties and made JFK possible...to the United States and the world he was the voice of a reasonable, civilized, and elevated America. He brought a new generation into politics, and moved millions of people in the United States and around the world."<ref>(Schlesinger, p. 239)</ref>

Journalist [[David Halberstam]] wrote that "Stevenson's gift to the nation was his language, elegant and well-crafted, thoughtful and calming."<ref name="Halberstam, p. 236">(Halberstam, p. 236)</ref> His biographer Jean H. Baker stated that Stevenson's memory "still survives...as an expression of a different kind of politics – nobler, more issue-oriented, less compliant to the greedy ambitions of modern politicians, and less driven by public opinion polls and the media."<ref>(Baker, pp. xi)</ref>

[[W. Willard Wirtz]], his friend and law partner, once said "If the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] ever gives an honorary degree, it should go to Adlai Stevenson."<ref>(Martin, p. 392)</ref>

Halberstam wrote of Stevenson that
[[File:5centsStevensonUSstamp.jpg|thumb|1966 U.S. postage stamp in honor of Stevenson]]
{{blockquote|he had played a historic role for his party, twice its presidential candidate, the first time running against impossible odds in 1952, at the height of the Korean War and McCarthyism, with the [Democratic] party already decaying from the scandals of twenty years in power. Running against the great hero of the era, Dwight Eisenhower, Stevenson had lost, of course, but his voice had seemed special in that moment, a voice of rationality and elegance. In the process of defeat, he had helped to salvage the party, giving it a new vitality and bringing to its fold a whole new generation of educated Americans, volunteers now in the political process, some very professional amateurs who would be masterly used by the Kennedys in 1960. If John and Robert Kennedy seemed to symbolize style in politics, much of that was derived directly from Stevenson. He had, at what should have been a particularly low point for the party, managed to keep it vibrant and vital, and to involve a new kind of people in politics.<ref>(Halberstam, pp. 26–27)</ref>}}

His biographer Jean H. Baker wrote of Stevenson's two presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956 that "what would be remembered...were not his public programs and ideas for a New America but, ironically, the private man – his character and personality, his wit and charm, his efforts to negotiate and keep the peace within the Democratic Party, his elegant speeches, and the grace with which he accepted defeat."<ref>(Baker, p. 382)</ref>

The [[Central Illinois Regional Airport]] near Bloomington has a whimsical statue of Stevenson, sitting on a bench with his feet propped on his briefcase and his head in one hand, as if waiting for his flight. He is depicted wearing shoes that had a hole in the sole, from having walked many miles during his election campaign. The shoe had become a symbol of his campaign.<ref>[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2567367760_352902be87.jpg?v=0] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403084152/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2567367760_352902be87.jpg?v=0|date=April 3, 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://blog.fantasticbonanza.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/cu-stevenson-hole.jpg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325073518/http://blog.fantasticbonanza.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/cu-stevenson-hole.jpg|date=March 25, 2009}}</ref>
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The [[Adlai E. Stevenson II Farm]] in [[Mettawa, Illinois]], which was Stevenson's home from 1936 to 1965, is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and has been designated a [[National Historic Landmark]].

Adlai Stevenson II was inducted as a Laureate of [[The Lincoln Academy of Illinois]] and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state's highest honor) by the governor of Illinois in 1965 in the area of government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-51|title=Laureates by Year – The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|website=The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|language=en-US|access-date=March 7, 2016|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204516/http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-51|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 1965, the [[United States Post Office Department]] issued a 5 cent stamp in Bloomington, Illinois, to commemorate the life of Stevenson.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1965 5c Adlai Stevenson|url=https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/1275/USA/|access-date=2021-08-04|website=www.mysticstamp.com|language=en|archive-date=August 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804195615/https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/1275/USA/|url-status=live}}</ref>