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...high point came when Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington asked Teller whether perhaps, in his eagerness to make new weapons, he might have got his judgment on disarmament distorted. This was a fair way of giving Teller a chance to answer in public the charges that some scientists make in private that he has lost all sense of proportion. The crowded committee room was silent. Teller began to reply: "I chose the profession of a scientist," he said, "and I am in love with science; and I would not do willingly or eagerly anything else but pure science...
Democratic dreams of the day, as told by Massachusetts' presidentially hopeful Senator John Kennedy about himself, Missouri's equally hopeful Senator Stuart Symington, and power-playing Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas...
...Several nights ago I dreamed that the good Lord touched me on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, you'll be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. What's more, you'll be elected.' I told Stu Symington about my dream. 'Funny thing,' said Stu, 'I had exactly the same dream about myself.' We both told our dreams to Lyndon Johnson. Said Lyndon: 'That's funny-for the life of me I can't remember tapping either of you boys...
...against Russell's warning that Johnson made his first major move as leader: Johnson wanted to leapfrog promising freshman Senators ahead of their seniors onto the most sought-after committees, e.g., Montana's Mike Mansfield to Foreign Relations and Missouri's Stuart Symington to Armed Services. Cautioned Dick Russell: "You are dealing with the most sensitive thing in the Senate-seniority." But Russell was not quite right: the most sensitive thing in the Senate was Lyndon Johnson, and his instinct told him to go ahead. Says he: "I pushed in my stack." Not only did Johnson somehow...
Simple Questions. As the committee gathered in closed session, Texan Johnson pulled out of his pocket his proposed interim statement, already drafted. There he argued not with Republican members, but with Missouri's presidency-bound Democrat Stuart Symington, who nagged insistently for a hard-swinging attack on the Administration for its defense shortcomings. At length, Johnson (well aware that his own committee was no more anxious than the Administration for defense spending in the last "economy" session of Congress) carried the day-and happily so, for his report was both accurate and constructive...