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...Symington hesitated warily before going into politics, but once he decided to run, he ran hard. He shook hands on wide and narrow Main Streets all over Missouri, made 22 speeches in one grueling day. To help woo the voters, he took along the other members of what is one of the most personable families in U.S. politics: Wife Evie, Elder Son Stuart Jr. (now a lawyer in St. Louis), Younger Son Jim, an accomplished singer who entertained voters with folk songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...
After trouncing a Truman-backed rival in the Democratic primary by a margin of 2 to 1, Symington went on to unseat Old Guard Republican Senator James Kem by more than 150,000 votes, while Eisenhower was carrying Missouri by close...
Running for re-election last year against a woman lawyer, Shoo-In Symington ran a lot harder than he needed to, racked up the most lopsided victory (66.4% of the votes) ever recorded in a Missouri senatorial election. His hard race seemed proof that the Symington-for-President boomlet in 1956, when Missouri's convention delegation voted for him as a favorite son, had set presidential ambitions astir...
...Voice in 100. Measured against his earlier careers as businessman and Government administrator, Symington's performance during his nearly seven years in the Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day, but effort has not translated into results that can be labeled as his own. In the Senate world of committees and compromises, his executive talent and experience are wasted: his is only one voice out of 100, and there is nothing for him to decide except where he himself stands...
...issue-national defense-Symington has made it abundantly clear where he stands. He stands for more: more air defense, more brush-fire war strength, more civil defense, more missiles. In his first Senate floor speech, in June 1953, he assailed Republican plans to trim airpower, charged that the Administration was apparently planning to use a "firmly balanced budget" as its weapon in case of Soviet air attack. Since then, he has remained Capitol Hill's most outspoken critic of Eisenhower defense policies, and most persistent warner that the U.S. was dangerously underestimating Soviet military and technological strength...