Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Democratic presidential hopeful who has made defense his favorite issue ever since he served as Harry Truman's Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50),* summoned Washington reporters to a committee room in the old Senate Office Building one day last week. Gravely Symington passed out advance copies of a speech that he was about to make on the Senate floor attacking the Administration's new lower appraisal of Soviet missile production (TIME, Feb. 1). Said he in the speech: "The intelligence books have been juggled so that the budget books...
...reporter asked if this was not ground enough to seek impeachment of President Eisenhower. Symington flushed, paused and replied in a low voice: "That would be unthinkable." But the great defense debate, partly sparked by politics, partly set in motion by the Administration's failures to explain itself, partly grounded on serious concern about the rate of missile production, roared...
...attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though a few new hard facts of intelligence point toward production plans that would reduce the ratio to 2 to 1. In Washington Democrat Symington snapped: "He completely confirms my position without reservation." Said Democrat Johnson less sharply: "I believe that our officials are patriotic men trying to do the best they know how, but I think we could all sleep in more peace if our country spent more time putting its best effort into...
...nonbinding primary. Plain-spoken as always, Kennedy startled reporters by pointing out that his "principal adversary" in the big race was not Humphrey but Texas' Lyndon Johnson, already credited with control of some 350 Southern delegates. Kennedy twitted Johnson as well as Missouri's Stuart Symington for refusing to meet him in the primaries. They remain safely on the side lines, he charged, "hoping to gain the nomination through manipulation of the convention...
...sound claim for whatever it may be worth; Democratic Contenders Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington are all millionaires...