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...spokesman for the Administration in power, he would pitch his campaign largely on the positive side, outlining gains the U.S. has made under Dwight Eisenhower (buried at Nixon's instigation early in the campaign: the potential issue of Adlai Stevenson's character-witness testimony for Alger Hiss...
...Congressman, Nixon went at his job with the same intensity, industry and ambition that he had shown before and has shown since. He pushed the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss to the conclusion that eventually sent Hiss to prison; then, knowing the perils of subversion as did few others, he made pointed and effective use of the subversion issue in his campaigns. His intensity in the use of that issue inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow...
...flew 31 missions over Europe during World War II, was shot down four days after Dday, spent the summer of 1944 working with the French underground. Mclntosh is rated neck and neck with Democrat Ira Dean McCoy, 67. Holding a narrow margin over Texas only Republican incumbent, Bruce Alger, 38, onetime Princeton football center, is Dallas County District Attorney Henry M. (for Menasco) Wade, 41, who enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman, rose to lieutenant j.g., served two years in the Pacific aboard the carrier Hornet. After one defeat (by 314 votes in 1954) by Republican Frederic Coudert...
...Third, and last, World War, in which atomic and nuclear weapons might wipe out Man himself. Could Stevenson have afforded to be this? We doubt it. Would the Republicans have accepted the ensuing "competitive coexistence" if it had come from a Democrat who had been attacked for giving Alger Hiss a character reference? We doubt it. Would Senator McCarthy have refrained from shouting "traitor"? We doubt...
...There are no burning issues: Truman, McCarthy, time for a change, mink coats, depression, boys in foxholes and Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's own high-level campaigning. There are, however, some intense regional issues, e.g., the farm program in the Midwest, local unemployment problems in such states as Indiana and Michigan, segregation in the South...