Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they're just being misled." Yet Democrats could not convincingly fault Dwight Eisenhower's leadership without saying where they themselves wanted the nation to go. Inescapably, the debate would turn to purpose...
...streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey. "I have extremely high regard for Stuart Symington," says Carey, "and for extremely good reason-his record...
...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 of the most personable families in U.S. politics: Wife Evie, Elder Son Stuart Jr. (now a lawyer in St. Louis), Younger Son Jim, an accomplished singer who entertained voters with folk songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...
...nearly every state, Stuart Symington has a few devoted, eager backers who are ready to pledge faith and funds to his cause. Most have helped him fight his battles through administrative Washington, or watched from neutral corners while his intense drive brought stale government alive. The quality of executive drive is a tough one to merchandise from a political platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind...
...could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, co-chairman of the presidential campaign of his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Hubert Humphrey, was asked why he did not scuttle Humphrey and run himself. Grinned McCarthy: "That...