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...former Secretary of the Air Force, Missouri Senator Stuart Symington has developed a keen sensitivity to one sign of the approach of spring. "Here we go again," he sighed last week, as he noted the emergence of "warnings of grave new dangers to this country because of developments in Soviet weaponry." The annual congressional committee hearings on defense appropriations were under way and, sure enough, U.S. military intelligence had detected evidence that the Soviet Union might be deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile...
...however, has been sought by the President's critics on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Their frustration at not being able to get it erupted in a new argument over the Administration's claim to an executive privilege against some kinds of congressional inquiry. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington raised the issue in a personal way by complaining in a Senate speech that National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger has emerged "as clearly the most powerful man in the Nixon Administration next to the President" but "will not appear before the duly constituted committees of the Congress." He also stated...
Candid Advice. At his press conference, Nixon distorted Symington's speech as an "attack upon the Secretary and a cheap shot." He praised Rogers as his "oldest and closest friend in the Cabinet," said that he "participates in every foreign policy decision that is made by the President," and ticked off all the times that Rogers had talked to Senators and Congressmen...
...President labeled the recent criticism by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) as a "cheap game." The President cited a host of statistics concerning the exact number of times the Secretary of State had met with the press or representatives of Congress in an attempt to refute the charges...
Kissinger "is the Secretary of State in everything but the title," Symington said. A Capitol appearance by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to explain Indochina to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "is rather an empty exercise," he added...