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Said plain-talking Curt LeMay in testimony released by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee, chaired by Missouri's Stuart Symington: if war came today "we would do very well" and "would probably win." But by 1959 the Russians will have twice as many long-range bombers as the U.S. and will be able to destroy the U.S. by surprise attack. What LeMay wants: the world's biggest strategic striking force...
...Harriman-Symington? Recently Frank McKinney, in a private survey for Truman, found that no candidate is strong enough to be nominated on the first ballot. McKinney also reported that he found Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington with enough second-choice support to be the nominee if the convention deadlocks. At first, this did not seem to fit very well with Truman's own announcement that he had decided not to be a member of the Missouri delegation (which will be pledged to Symington) because he wanted to remain a free agent. With the speculation season in swing, however...
Last week as LeMay testified under oath before a Senate Armed Services Sub committee, chaired by Missouri's airwise Democrat Stuart Symington, the capitol rushed to man its security defenses. Symington's committee submitted all of its questions to LeMay in advance. In advance, LeMay wrote out all his answers for the next day's session. In all-night conferences, both questions and answers were reviewed at the Pentagon by an Air Force task force and by a high-ranking Navy security specialist. Of the 153 questions asked during two days' hearings, LeMay answered...
Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington: "If true, the Khrushchev statement is a significant and terrible warning to the American people and the free world...
...convention will handle all its business on Saturday, electing permanent officers, discussing a platform, and so forth. After Butler's address, the nominations will begin. Besides strong contingents expected for the leading candidates, Stevenson and Kefauver, the names of Symington, Harriman, Lausche, and Truman will be thrown into the vote scramble...