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...this time, by timing his announcement to coincide with Congress' adjournment, McNamara prevented General Le May from using the Senate Armed Forces Committee and headed off any attempt by Messrs. Vinson, Symington and Goldwater to organize against him. By the time Congress reconvened the missile contractors would have ceased production and begun reconversion of their plants. The sooner the order was given the harder it would be for Congress to contravene...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Senator Stuart Symington discusses Cuba...
Bush demanded a subcommittee vote on adjournment; Symington insisted firmly that he had a right to adjourn the subcommittee on his own. George Humphrey tried to get in a word: "Mr. Chairman . . ." Symington's reply dripped with sarcasm : " 'Senator' Humphrey would like to say something." Humphrey: Before you adjourn this, and I am very complimented at being called Senator Humphrey, but that is not the fact...
...Symington (breaking in): Didn't you say-as long as you want to testify-did you say what the paper says you said? Humphrey (bluntly...
...Symington: You made a bitter and in my opinion a direct impugning of the motives of the U.S. Senate and this subcommittee, and therefore I do not intend to hear any testimony from you this morning...