Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Narrowed Gap. Like a giant exclamation mark, the Soviet Pacific shot punctuated the first rumblings of an election-year debate over the adequacy of Administration defense programs. Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington, Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary from 1947-50, charged in a speech on the Senate floor that "this Administration is now, in effect, planning that this nation become a second-rate power." New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner told a Democratic gathering in Manhattan that as a result of the Administration's "bankrupt leadership," the U.S. is now "dancing...
...Needled by Jack Kennedy's challenge to come out and fight in the primary elections, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington promised, on a TV program, to "take my campaign into the homes, to the street corners and to the farms"-indeed, almost everywhere except to the primary ballot boxes. Symington also plans to advance his candidacy at a series of high-caloric political banquets, starting with a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Springfield, Mo., with Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence as the featured speaker, and a testimonial dinner in St. Louis on Feb. 20, with Harry...
...Stuart Symington of Missouri--the definite commitment--has not yet picked an exact date, but expects to speak here some time during March...
...Pennsylvania's Lawrence, whose 81 convention votes could put the nomination in Kennedy's lap, still opposes him and remains, in fact, the one Democratic boss with the strength and prestige to put together a stop-Kennedy ticket. Says Lawrence (who leans toward Adlai Stevenson or Stuart Symington): Kennedy is "a very able young man," but "as far as the Democratic leadership in Pennsylvania is concerned, we're not announcing for any candidate at this time." One leader promptly disagreed: Hiram G. Andrews, speaker of Pennsylvania's state house of representatives, announced that he would vote...
...Democrats), push for a civil rights bill. And the session will doubtless see many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed to Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's candidacy...