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...sense of urgency and drama to Administration announcements which they frequetly do not deserve. This is particularly true of the official chagrin Mr. Kennedy lately expressed over the grotesque size of the postwar emergency stockpile of strategic materials. Darkly, the President mentioned waste and profiteering, and encouraged Senator Symington's investigating committee to exorcise these ghouls as best it could...
...severity of these questions should not give the impression that McCone's appointment was in any danger; indeed, Senator Symington, less like a blocker than a best man, led him through the Committee hearing as he would down a wedding aisle. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) also came to the defense of the blushing newly-wed when Senators like Fulbright, Clark, McCarthy and Case (R-S.D.) impugned his honor...
Case, for example, had quoted a 1946 House inquiry into World War II profiteering, which showed that McCone had been part of a group which garnered 44 million dollars on a $100,000 investment. Symington, to the rescue, laughed: "it is still legal in America, if not to make a profit, at least to try to make a profit, is it not?" And McCone, the star witness, blushed: "That is my understanding...
Fluent Heavyweight. After the war, Hamilton became chief legal consultant of the Justice Department, later returned to private practice (mainly international law) in Manhattan, where he now lives. A confirmed Democrat who gets along well with Republicans, he backed Stu Symington for President, helped write a report on the Defense Department for John Kennedy immediately after the election...
...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...