Word: symington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major debate over the adequacy of the Eisenhower Administration defense programs to cope with the dangers of the coming "missile gap" (TIME, Feb. 8). Nixon defends the Administration program with no sign of misgivings. Among the Democratic hopefuls, Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington have hammered hardest at the missile gap, but Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been frankest in facing the prospect that more defense might cost more money. The nation must increase the "portion of our national resources" devoted to missile programs, he says. Symington, Harry Truman's onetime...
...agrees that federal farm programs have become intolerably expensive (cost in fiscal 1959: $7 billion). But none of the presidential hopefuls have as yet come out with a convincing agenda for cleaning up the mess. Humphrey has unveiled a four-point "charter of hope for agriculture," and Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration...
...Gallup poll undertook to find out what, if anything, people thought the Federal Government should be spending more money on. Topping the list: education. The Gallup finding indicates that federal aid to education will be one of 1960's most important domestic issues. Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all favor more of it. Vice President Nixon's efforts to take hold of the education issue ("Inadequate classrooms, underpaid teachers and flabby standards are weaknesses we must constantly strive to eliminate") are hindered by the fact that President Eisenhower has drawn back from his first-term support for federal...
...bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity to shame his reluctant fellow candidates, e.g., Stuart Symington, Lyndon Johnson, who are staying out of the primaries...
...Southern delegates; Johnson's backers vow their votes will never go to Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There's no draft without an organization. No campaign, no candidate...