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Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Democratic presidential hopeful who has made defense his favorite issue ever since he served as Harry Truman's Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50),* summoned Washington reporters to a committee room in the old Senate Office Building one day last week. Gravely Symington passed out advance copies of a speech that he was about to make on the Senate floor attacking the Administration's new lower appraisal of Soviet missile production (TIME, Feb. 1). Said he in the speech: "The intelligence books have been juggled so that the budget books...
...reporter asked if this was not ground enough to seek impeachment of President Eisenhower. Symington flushed, paused and replied in a low voice: "That would be unthinkable." But the great defense debate, partly sparked by politics, partly set in motion by the Administration's failures to explain itself, partly grounded on serious concern about the rate of missile production, roared...
...attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though a few new hard facts of intelligence point toward production plans that would reduce the ratio to 2 to 1. In Washington Democrat Symington snapped: "He completely confirms my position without reservation." Said Democrat Johnson less sharply: "I believe that our officials are patriotic men trying to do the best they know how, but I think we could all sleep in more peace if our country spent more time putting its best effort into...
...bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity to shame his reluctant fellow candidates, e.g., Stuart Symington, Lyndon Johnson, who are staying out of the primaries...
...Southern delegates; Johnson's backers vow their votes will never go to Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There's no draft without an organization. No campaign, no candidate...