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...still an election year. Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington charged that the President had subjected the country to a "humiliating disaster" at the summit. Adlai Stevenson declared that Ike's "bland" explanations in his televised speech were unsatisfactory. And Jack Kennedy insisted that the nation was confronted with a "failure of leadership...
From the Republican camp, Vice President Nixon fired back, charged that Symington, Stevenson and Kennedy were "out of step with their own party." And -if the spirit of the Democrats at Ike's breakfast meeting was any indication-maybe they were...
With the Democratic Convention just six weeks off, the Washington political oracles were saying that the free-for-all race had turned into a two-man sprint. On the tip sheets of most political touts, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were leaving Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington behind...
Oregon provided the fringe on top of his rolling bandwagon. Pitted for the first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick...
...chance, Adlai Stevenson still feels Harry Truman's support a political liability, he can take consolation in the fact that Truman has already pledged himself this time around to Fellow Missourian Stuart Symington...