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Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the committee, and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), former secretary of the Air Force, sharply disagreed with Laird...
...Symington Committee hearings, Senator Symington- who's a very strong opponent of the war in Vietnam, incidentally-and Senator Javits- who again, has a reputation as a dove- say that the war in Laos is very successful. In fact, Javits says at one point this is one war that is successful, so let's not keep it a secret...
...Symington made a statement that in Vietnam- especially North Vietnam- the bombing was really not very fair because there were too many restrictions and it wasn't fair to the pilots because they couldn't bomb the center of Hanoi. But, he says, in Laos we've used the military without shackles- it's his phrase- and we've shown what air power can really...
MISSOURI: Stuart Symington, the three-term Senator from the "Show Me State," has changed in six years. In the 1964 campaign he was a leading advocate of a strong military and a vigorous effort to win in Vietnam. Since then, however, he has become a leading critic of the war and of big defense budgets (opposing the ABM, for example...
This switch has made it difficult for the Republican candidate, Missouri Attorney General John Danforth, to get his hooks into Symington. Danforth is a liberal and is regarded as the best Republican vote getter in the state. About the strongest criticism he has of Symington, however, is that he failed to oppose the war early enough. Danforth is running an expensive (he is heir to the Ralston Purina cereal fortune) and active campaign, but without issues it has been a uphill fight. It will be a major upset if he unseats Symington...