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  • Contributor > Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988 (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [of War Robert] Patterson and General Eisenhower, then chief of staff of the Army. In the separate Air Force concept, all three would be under the Secretary of Defense. The Navy position was one of coordination as against administration. In effect
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did not affect his friendship with Russell or Russell's friendship with him. But if he had gone too far in his innate liberalism he would not have had the degree of support of all the South that appealed to Kennedy and his backers. G: Before we