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Indiana's Frank McKinney, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a great friend of Harry Truman, a Catholic and a strong Symington man, expressed the reaction of some of the bosses. He believes that Kennedy's Catholicism will make him too controversial. Said he last week in Phoenix: "The Democratic Party cannot afford to create hardships or disadvantages for itself." Will Catholics desert the Democrats if Kennedy is rejected? "They might, but that is the chance we'll have to take." Other Democratic leaders believe that Kennedy can be elected with no more difficulty than besets...
...most political mileage. Traveling in a rented bus, he drove furiously across rolling dairyland and rustic wheat country, punching endlessly at two themes: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's hated farm program, and Jack Kennedy's early support of that program. Local lieutenants of Missouri's Stuart Symington-whose strategy calls for staying out of primaries-publicly threw their support to Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee and promptly disowned by Humphrey). Nearing the end, Humphrey even lost his voice but rigorous throat sprays...
Handsome Stu Symington can give Jack Kennedy a run for the cameras, and-a millionaire himself-he also has the money to wage an all-out campaign. His family can match the Kennedys in looks if not in numbers, and probably surpass them as entertainers (Wife Eve was once a $1,000-a-week cafe-society chanteuse. Son Jim is a semiprofessional guitarist and folk singer, and Daughter-in-Law Sylvia an accomplished pianist...
Communing with Commuters. After his announcement, Symington took to the road for a fast-moving weekend. In Detroit for the Democratic Midwest Conference, he denied any part in the stop-Kennedy movement. In New York he held a fast press conference, then dashed out to suburban New Rochelle for a big Democratic dinner and a bid for the commuters' vote. By week's end he was back in Detroit to say goodbye to the departing Midwestern politicians and attend a meeting of the United Auto Workers...
Even though he moved faster than he had while under wraps, Stu Symington was basing his campaign on a policy of hurry up and wait. If Jack Kennedy should falter or fail on one of the primary battlefields then Symington-generally conceded to be "everybody's second choice"-might move into position as the most promising candidate...