General Debate speaker

Stevenson

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for United States, between 1962 and 1964 — 11,100 words in all. The longest was 1964, at 5,599.

Also recorded as “STEVENSON” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 2 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

05,00010,0001962: 5,501 words1964: 5,599 words19621964
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1962 17 not recorded 5,501
1964 19 not recorded 5,599

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 16 peacekeeping 15 nuclear weapons 7 poverty 6 outer space 4 colonialism 3 cold war 2 human rights 2

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Stevenson said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

Where this page comes from