Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pray tell, what is the weird-looking instrument being played by the member of Stu Symington's pep band [see cut]? Something new or just a trombone that barely survived a "demonstration...
...diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost to Kennedy in Los Angeles, Lanphier began to look for a job outside the defense field. He found it at Fairbanks Whitney, which does only 5% of its business with the Government...
...nation's strongest Democratic bosses, had been a holdout against Kennedy for fear that a Roman Catholic presidential nominee might hurt the party in militantly Protestant rural regions. Lawrence and his Pennsylvanians invited Kennedy and the opposition to a breakfast at Pasadena's Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. Stu Symington, forceful and yet somehow dim as a waning flashlight, got a good hand for his promise to attack Richard Nixon on domestic policies and Eisenhower on foreign relations. Johnson promised responsible leadership and then, almost with a note of resignation, offered to back the winner whoever he might...
...aisles and joined the Wyoming delegation. There, Delegate Dale Richardson penciled the tally, looked up and grinned. Rising, he shuffled excitedly down the rows of his group, shouting "Let's go! Let's go!" Though the delegation had decided to split their vote among Kennedy, Johnson and Symington, one after another yelled, "O.K.!" and waved their arms in assent. Moments later the clerk called "WYOMING!" and Delegation Chairman Tracy McCracken, his white hair glistening in the spotlight, cried: "Wyoming's vote will make a majority for Senator Kennedy!" And through the thunderous tumult came Missouri...
...meeting, Kennedy told the press with a smile: "Governor Freeman will be in the front line of those considered. Too young? I don't think youth is a calamity. We're all going to get over it." All the while, the forces of Missouri's Stu Symington were being tempted to abandon the presidential race by well-floated rumors of Stu's potential vice-presidential strength. Though Symington himself held fast, Missouri's Governor Jim Blair set the stage for Stu by grabbing the microphone after the presidential balloting and moving for a Kennedy nomination...