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Happy days, as Franklin Roosevelt's theme song went, were here again. And they got here again in a way that F.D.R. could well have appreciated: a Democratic candidate, partly by force of personality, partly by piecing back together the power blocs that had been shattered by Republican Dwight Eisenhower, was the U.S.'s President-elect...
What happened in the cities to give Kennedy his vast advantage? In many ways it was a reversion to voting habits temporarily obliterated by the personal popularity of Dwight Eisenhower. As in Roosevelt's day, ethnic, racial and religious minorities once again voted heavily Democratic. It was also in the cities that Kennedy's personality caught on most decisively. There were strong indications that Eisenhower, had he started campaigning three weeks before Election Day, might have stemmed the tide: his Cleveland appearance was almost certainly a major factor in saving Ohio for Nixon...
...terms of the popular vote accorded Kennedy, the U.S. electorate withheld the resounding mandate that it gave Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. But because he had stirred sufficient numbers of voters to take him and his New Frontier on trust, Kennedy's challenge had been accepted...
...most relaxed Republican in Washington on Nov. 8 seemed to be Dwight D. Eisenhower. His election-eve campaign speech for Richard Nixon was fervent ("I lived with him in hours of intense discussion and thought and soul searching . . ."). But he coughed occasionally, and afterwards remarked cheerfully of his performance: "By golly, I had a hell of a time with that cold." Sprawled comfortably before a TV set, he nodded agreement to Nixon's final appeal speech from Chicago, then declared: "That's his best speech of the whole damn campaign...
...successor. Then, back at the White House, Ike left Hagerty with two telegrams to each party, covering either eventuality, went calmly to bed at 10:30. Next morning, a White House spokesman reported that the President was "not happy" about the election's outcome, but hours later Dwight Eisenhower sent Jack Kennedy his congratulations...