Word: himselfe
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Mindful that his audience was made up largely of farmers, Speaker Symington fired on one of his favorite targets, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "I don't know who he represents," said Symington, "but I know who he does not represent-the farmers." But it was not what Symington...
In his travels around the country to show himself to local Democratic politicos, Symington uses a soft and amiable sell, makes no effort to wring promises of convention support. The hard selling of Stuart Symington as presidential timber is done by his backers. This week, Missouri Congressman Charles ("Charley") Brown...
Symington hesitated warily before going into politics, but once he decided to run, he ran hard. He shook hands on wide and narrow Main Streets all over Missouri, made 22 speeches in one grueling day. To help woo the voters, he took along the other members of what is one...
One Voice in 100. Measured against his earlier careers as businessman and Government administrator, Symington's performance during his nearly seven years in the Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day...
This failure to pin an unmistakable ideological label on himself has damaged his standing with liberals and the Washington press corps, brought upon him accusations that he is empty of genuine convictions, a man with a grey flannel mind. Only last week Symington set out to contradict that judgment by...