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Somebody with wit, courage and a love of adventure needs to take over the Democratic Party. A handful of daring and like-minded competitors -- Symington, Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy -- did that back in 1960, and then J.F.K. grabbed it all and took the world along. Reagan did it with the Republicans while the technicians with their polls and committees sputtered and protested his right-wing doctrine. But at least he had a doctrine...
...historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest that Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such men as Harry Truman, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington. Residents of New Jersey have never registered much interest in local government, mainly because most of the state's population lives under the professional and cultural shadow of New York City. By contrast, Louisiana politics, wrote A.J. Liebling, "is of an intensity and complexity that are matched . . .only...
Such was the case in 1960 when presidential contenders John Kennedy and Stuart Symington proclaimed a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union and criticized the Eisenhower-Nixon administration's lack of vigilance. Less than three weeks after Kennedy took office, Secretary of Defense McNamara admitted that the "missile gap" was indeed a fictitious one. The New York Times of February 7, 1961 reported that "Kennedy Defense Study Finds No Evidence of 'Missile Gap.'" During the next several years it became clear that there was in fact a gap, but that it was--and always had been--in the United States...
...they felt the heritage of two who used to live on the site: Henry Adams, author and descendant of Presidents, and John Hay, a personal secretary to Lincoln and later Secretary of State to McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The Reagans nibbled on Dover sole and an omelette where Stuart Symington, 79, the erect and handsome former Senator from Missouri, used to court his first wife, Evelyn Wadsworth, granddaughter...
ENGAGED. Stuart Symington, 76, first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and telegenically handsome, four-term Democratic Senator from Missouri who, he said, graduated from politician to statesman when he retired in 1976; and Ann (Nancy) Hemingway Watson, 59, widow of Arthur K. Watson, an IBM executive and a son of its founding father. The wedding, in June, will be the second for each...