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Last week, when the bill came up for debate, Mansfield ran into a cold stone wall. Georgia's Dick Russell lamented that secrets told Senators in executive session generally trickle to the press. Although they are ordinarily no friends of the Administration, Missouri's Stuart Symington and Kentucky's Alben Barkley, both National Security Council members under Harry Truman, went along with President Eisenhower's view that CIA is "too sensitive" to be watchdogged. By the time the bipartisan opposition had finished, ten sponsors had backed out on Mansfield, and the Senate, 59-27, turned down...
Members of the Subcommittee besides Humphrey are Senators Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John O. Pastore (D,R.I.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky), Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio...
...national convention tries to reach a compromise between North and South, Adlai Stevenson might still have a chance. Or there could be a new compromise candidate, perhaps Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, or Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche. These and other names, e.g., Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, were being rolled around in the vacuum...
...Democrats have a hope of winning the fight for the White House, they will name some such candidate as Sena tor Symington of Missouri, Governor Lausche of Ohio or Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas. If the big boys privately decide that they can't beat Ike in '56, watch for the nomination of the boy with the big bank account, New York's Averell Harriman...
...chances for the Democratic nomination. He does not have the support of party leaders. He does not have the support of a single Senator. It would not be far wrong to say that the Minnesota primary has done more for the chances of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington than any other possibility...