Word: symington
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John Kennedy would get a good chuckle out of today's reverence for the 1960 Boston-Austin political partnership meticulously reconstructed by Michael Dukakis with Lloyd Bentsen. Kennedy had planned a Boston-St. Louis axis, which doesn't even rhyme. He intended to run with Missouri's Stuart Symington...
...hunch is that it will be Stu ((Symington))," I said. Kennedy shrugged, a soft confirmation of sorts. (It was not hardened until the following week, when Kennedy asked Clark Clifford, a Symington friend, to tell the Senator he was the choice...
...Phoenix-area convention bureau reports that because of Mecham's policies, 45 conventions have been canceled, costing some $25 million in lost revenue. "I think he's had a really adverse effect on the business climate," complains J. Fife Symington III, a major Phoenix developer. "You'd have to live here to appreciate this comedy of errors...
Somebody with wit, courage and a love of adventure needs to take over the Democratic Party. A handful of daring and like-minded competitors -- Symington, Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy -- did that back in 1960, and then J.F.K. grabbed it all and took the world along. Reagan did it with the Republicans while the technicians with their polls and committees sputtered and protested his right-wing doctrine. But at least he had a doctrine...
...historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest that Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such men as Harry Truman, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington. Residents of New Jersey have never registered much interest in local government, mainly because most of the state's population lives under the professional and cultural shadow of New York City. By contrast, Louisiana politics, wrote A.J. Liebling, "is of an intensity and complexity that are matched . . .only...