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...Symington: I had a dream last night. The good Lord came to me and, in a blaze of white light, he told me he was going to make me President...
...well ahead despite a psychological post-summit uneasiness about his youth and lack of diplomatic experience, counted up a minimum 620 first-ballot votes for Kennedy. (Needed to win: 761.) In second place was Lyndon Johnson, with 410½ votes, grounded on the rock of the Solid South. Stuart Symington (104½ votes), Adlai Stevenson (41) and Hubert Humphrey (51½) trailed. If the voting goes into a second ballot, Kennedy's indicated strength should carry him over the finish line with 765½ votes. But if the Kennedy bandwagon should be wrecked, Stuart Symington, with widely scattered support...
...still-hopeful Stuart Symington, he turned once again to his routine more-defense-spending speech, but drew only polite applause on the Democratic dinner circuit. One reason was that the Symington personality has not registered on the public with any impact during his presidential campaign. Another: the flights of the U-2 showed U.S. military to be mightier-and Russia weaker-than defense critics had anticipated...
...Workers' Union convention in Chicago ignored the ruling of the parent A.F.L.-C.I.O. forbidding any preconvention endorsement, roaringly acclaimed Kennedy as their choice. But the leaders of 78 A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, polled by Chicago's Roosevelt University, favored Stevenson by a 2-1 margin over Kennedy and Symington...
...Johnson had not noticeably taken any delegates from Jack Kennedy, whose aides are airily claiming 700 convention votes on the second ballot. Johnson's strength was still based on the 319 of the South (including Texas) and any sizable increase was likely to come from Symington forces if Symington's chances seemed clearly doomed. But the Johnson campaign had bucked up the Kennedy holdouts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and California. And Lyndon Johnson himself had moved strongly into position as the last serious hope of the stop-Kennedy forces...