Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, at least two virulent former hawks, Senators Stuart Symington (D. Mo.), former democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, and Thruston B. Morton (R. Ky.), former national chairman of the Republican Party, are urging a change in policy...
...frightening to think that supposedly intelligent leaders of our country are willing (Bishop Sheen) to pull out of Viet Nam altogether and risk a terrible bloodbath [Aug. 11]. Others (Sherman Cooper and Stuart Symington) want to halt the bombing. They must have forgotten that we have stopped the bombing and fighting at several intervals and with no results. Such thinking only prolongs the war or brings negotiations that favor the enemy...
...weeks now, former White House braintrusters of such varied stripe as Walter Heller and Paul Samuelson, editorialists as far apart as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and Senators of such diverse views as New York Republican Jacob Javits and Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington have been sniping at everything from the government's fiscal blunders and the often broken wage-price guidelines to the faulty forecasting of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Finally, when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet...
Anyone else who got stuck with a jalopy like that might figure it was a lemon, but State Department Chief of Protocol James Symington, 39, insists: "It's what I've always wanted." At his home in Washington's Wesley Heights, Symington took delivery on a snappy used "pedicab" he bought for $30 in Kuala Lumpur last October. "At first," he said, "I couldn't get the driver to believe I wanted to buy the thing from him-he thought I just wanted a ride." Thing is, just about everyone in Wesley Heights wants a ride...
Unwanted Power. The Senate zeroed in on the reserves. "We can't permit the six-month reserve-training program," said Missouri's Stuart Symington, "to become an umbrella for avoiding active service." Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, prestigious Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall sponsored an amendment to the record $58.2 billion defense budget giving the President authority to call individual reservists to active duty for as long as two years. The Senate voted, 66 to 21, to adopt the amendment, which exempts men who served...