Word: symington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, flew into Washington last week, the White House said as little as possible about his meeting with President Nixon. The U.S. these days is anxious to get out of Southeast Asia, not to get in deeper. Reflecting that mood, Senator Stuart Symington next week will begin hearings on the American involvement in Laos. To gauge the U.S. presence there, TIME Correspondents David Greenway and William Marmon visited the kingdom twice in recent weeks. Their report...
...message to Nixon was clear. If Stennis stayed home, leadership for the military-appropriations bill would fall to Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington -an outspoken military critic. According to Overby, the Administration then ordered a delay of Mississippi school integration-and Stennis returned to shepherd the appropriations bill through. At week's end, neither Stennis nor the Administration had denied the report...
...need for the program could cut the project off long before that much is spent. ABM critics argue, however, that the final cost will turn out to be much higher. They fear that Safeguard may be only the first segment of a greatly expanded "thick" deployment. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, a former Secretary of the Air Force, has put the cost of such a system as high as $400 billion, although even many of Safeguard's detractors find that figure outlandish. One criticism of Safeguard's cost goes to a fundamental question of national policy: Should even...
...Washington, the Goldwater team will join Capitol Hill's other family acts, including Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington and his guitar-strumming Congressman son James and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and his son-in-law, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. Goldwater and Son promises to be the most cohesive of the family firms in politics. "We sound alike, and basically we think alike," said the new Congressman. "Maybe we shouldn't be so much alike. But we just...
...proposal from the military, suddenly bristles with skepticism. The Senate may not approve the antiballistic missile program. Unfriendly investigations have been pointing out flaws in the ABM and other weapons programs. Still another committee is scrutinizing overseas military deployment and commitments. Once friendly Senators, such as Democrats Stuart Symington of Missouri and Allen Allender of Louisiana, have emerged as critics. "Some of us in Congress," El-lender said last week, "have become captives of the military...