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...both, it was diplomatically decided that a joint session was called for. Executing such arrangements would be delicate even for old protocol hands. Yet this week's state visit-the first ever by a woman Premier-marked a last-minute premiere for a novice. Unruffled, James Wadsworth Symington recalls his stint as a Marine private. Said he: "You learn that you always 'land running...
...Symington, 38, who since last May served as the President's adviser on juvenile delinquency, started running the moment he was sworn in last week as the State Department's Chief of Protocol, succeeding Lloyd Hand, who resigned to enter California politics. He had been in office less than an hour when he presented Sudan's new ambassador, Amin Ahmed Hussein, to the President. Apart from preparing for Mrs. Gandhi's visit, Symington was also busily readying himself to handle the myriad problems of the 113 foreign mission chiefs in Washington-his new "constituency," as Johnson...
...Ouvrez la Bouche." By background and experience, blueblooded, boyishly handsome Jim Symington has unusual qualifications for the job-His father is Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, his mother the daughter of the late Senator James Wadsworth and granddaughter of Secretary of State John Hay. After Eastern schooling (Deerfield Academy, Yale and Columbia Law), he was deputy director of the Food for Peace program, later was a top assistant to Bobby Kennedy when he was Attorney General...
Hitherto, young Symington has been best known in Washington society as a baritone folk singer and guitar player who performed for Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their...
...Time to Learn." Symington shares his wife's belief in personal diplomacy, still talks about the time he invited an Asian student for dinner. "He couldn't believe it," the new protocol chief related. "He said he'd been in this country three years and had never been invited to an American home." From such ex periences came a lesson later conveyed in a song the Symingtons composed by the swimming pool of their comfortable white house in Georgetown. "It takes time to know your neighbor on the other side," runs one verse. "Time to learn...