Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, the supporters of Democratic Candidates Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Symington assumed a public so-what attitude, but showed private signs of alarm at the strength of Jack Kennedy's increasing thrust. The crucial primary for Kennedy will still be three weeks hence in Wisconsin, where he is running hard against Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic honors, and where Republicans can freely cross over to vote either ticket. But at the end of the beginning it looked more and more a campaign between Dick Nixon and Jack Kennedy...
...What has New Hampshire got to do with the price of eggs?" snapped a Humphrey henchman after Jack Kennedy's impressive primary victory last week. Said a Stuart Symington lieutenant: "Have any of the oldtimers given up? The professionals have been through this before." Such talk was more and more frequent last week around the Washington campfires of Jack Kennedy's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination. The names of notable unbeatables who had been beaten-Taft, Kefauver, Stassen-were lovingly recalled. There was a lot of big talk about stopping Kennedy in Wisconsin April...
...mention that Senator Stuart Symington, a presidential hopeful, even threatened to publish top-secret U.S. intelligence estimates if the Administration denies that Soviet might has "increased considerably [Feb. 22]." After a statement like that, I consider Senator Symington presidentially hopeless...
Brown, another 25% if the Kennedy bandwagon got rolling fast; Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey were reckoned at about 10% apiece, with no known support for Lyndon Johnson. After studying the results, Kennedy finally bowed out of the California primary last week-taking his half-loaf instead of stirring the wrath of California Democratic leaders, who want to avoid an expensive, party-splitting fight...
...Kansas, Kennedy forces claimed to have control of the delegation through one man: Governor George Docking. But Favorite Son Docking did nothing to squelch the recent upsurge of party sentiment for Senator Stuart Symington, whose Missouri support spills across the state line. In the 42-man delegation, guessed Governor Docking, Kennedy and Symington are running about even in a delegation that votes under a unit rule. Kennedyites explained that they had taken off the pressure so as not to hurt Governor Docking in his unprecedented campaign for a third term...