Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chair, nervously fingered his lips and ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call for American greatness through sacrifice...
Wave & the Rock. Johnson's high hope was that the dark horses. Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson, with some 200 first-ballot votes among them, could be persuaded to hold on. His other hope was to try to keep state Governors heading up uncommitted or favorite-son delegations from giving way to Kennedy on the first ballot. Johnson had his network of support, mostly congressional friends. He had his handful of devoted admirers. At one point. Colorado's ex-Senator Ed Johnson, who had been kept off the delegation by a Kennedy coup, shuffled...
...break power focused on Pennsylvania's 81 votes, presided over by Governor David Leo Lawrence, a tough, old-line boss who could make his influence stick if he wanted to. Dave Lawrence's heart be longed to Adlai Stevenson. Early in the game his mind took him toward Symington because he thought that Jack Kennedy's Catholicism would be a drag on the state ticket in Pennsylvania?where Catholic Dave Lawrence himself had barely squeaked by in 1958. But even hard-rock Pennsylvania was irresistibly being engulfed by the Kennedy wave. Philadelphia's Bill Green, No. 2 boss...
...SYMINGTON "has always been what we call 'straight' on our [Negro] questions...
...next week's special election of a new U.S. Senator to fill the seat of the late "Wild Bill" Langer. The contestants-Republican Governor John E. Davis and Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their supporting casts. Jack Kennedy and Stu Symington got out of town as Nixon arrived, and Nelson Rockefeller, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and Senate Campaign Director Barry Goldwater have all taken their turns on the stump...