Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answering telephone calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence people...
Missouri's Symington plays it safe. As a U.S. Senator, he has proved himself a master at not making enemies. With his authority as Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary (1947-50), he has spoken up determinedly for stronger national defense. Organized labor rates him as one of twelve Senators with a "perfect" voting record; yet. as the onetime board chairman of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., Symington is viewed benignly by businessmen. His close personal and political friends range from Convair Vice President Tom Lanphier to the Electrical Workers' President Jim Carey...
Symington's strategy has been to act as if he never heard of the word "President." Early last winter he had a visit from Indiana's Frank McKinney, former Democratic national chairman (1951-53). who still speaks with the political voice of Harry S. Truman. McKinney wanted to get going right away on a Symington-for-President organization. Stu Symington threw up his hands in horror. All he wanted, he cried, was to campaign hard for re-election in Missouri...
Symington is the first choice of Harry Truman's dwindling band of intimates and. as the man who has made no ene mies, stands No. 2 on nearly every other list. Last week handsome, athletic Stu Symington was playing golf (mid-70s) in Puerto Rico, still keeping his silence, still making no enemies. But there is a peril in his policy: if Symington has given no one reason to be against him. neither has he given anyone much reason...
Bowles was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1948, and following his defeat in 1950, President Truman appointed him Ambassador to India and Nepal, where he developed a major Point Four program...