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...Against the counsel of the old heads, he flouted the Senate's sacred seniority when he made committee assignments at the beginning of the session. He wanted to, and did, put his able freshmen where they would do the party the most good, e.g., Missouri's Stuart Symington, former Secretary of the Air Force, got a seat on the Armed Services Committee. When the old hands protested, Johnson called (as he often does) on a Texas-flavored story. A boy he knew, he said, complained that his brother had been "twowheres and I ain't been nowheres...
Some Democrats are looking as far ahead as 1956, but the view is blurred. Adlai Stevenson still has a fervid follow ing, notably among the all-important amateurs outside the old Democratic organization ranks. There is already talk about new possibilities, e.g., Missouri's Senator Symington, who has a long record of success in business, Government and politics. Occasionally a Democrat will speculate on whether Lyndon Johnson, the party's key man of 1953, may himself be the party's presidential candidate...
...becoming concerned about fear of power, and recklessness, of some of those engaged in the search for Communists and Communist influence," Symington continued. "That fear may destroy precious ingredients of the freedom we are pledged to maintain...
...Freedom," Symington stated, "means non-conformity. Freedom cannot exist unless it is exercised. It cannot survive unless it is supported by a courageous nation of courageous individuals...
...Stuart Symington, Democratic Senator from Missouri, will deliver the main address at the graduation, where Reverend John H. Leamon, Minister of Cambridge's First Congregational Church will give the invocation and benediction...