Last week, amid mounting evidence of Democratic campaign achievement, Dwight Eisenhower wheeled dramatically onto the political firing line on behalf of his own candidate, Richard Nixon.
As he moved into the final stage of his 1956 campaign, Nixon clearly saw the makings of a big Eisenhower sweep, and he was hopeful that it would be big enough to pull a Republican majority into ...
Students here are evenly divided between President Eisenhower and Adlai ... and their interest in the campaign is high. At Princeton, campaign buttons and informal debates are everywhere, although ...
As the campaign intensified, Stevenson taunted Eisenhower as a “part-time president” and often referred to his “heir apparent,” hoping to capitalize on voters’ trepidation about Nixon.
He answered, “If you give me a week, I might think of one.” Meanwhile, Nixon was reluctant to have Eisenhower campaign, out ...