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...Lonely Visitor. Khrushchev's grandstanding offer, if meant to be taken seriously, casually undercut his dictum-reiterated only last week in his letter to Macmillan-that he would never again sit down at a conference table with Dwight Eisenhower. At such a spectacular get-together of chiefs of state, Russia might find it easier than in a more professional Disarmament Commission session to avoid explaining why the self-styled champions of peace had stalked out of the ten-nation Geneva disarmament talks last June. And if the Disarmament Commission is prevented from meeting, it is prevented from urging...
...feeling that almost all U.S. allies seemed to share was the uneasy (and exaggerated) suspicion that Dwight Eisenhower-and hence U.S. foreign policy-would be in a state of drift from now until election time, and that the U.S. had already suffered a fall in prestige. French diplomats talked of "flottement" (vacillation) and the British of "vacuum." The politest way of expressing this was the London Daily Telegraph's feeling that Ike was a "consolidator," while Kennedy or Nixon would be "innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing...
Undisputed Control. Thus auspiciously launched, the 1960 campaign promised to be the most stirring in recent history. Both Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon had taken undisputed control of their respective parties. Neither is a dominating personal figure like Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower, but each combines rare political talent with principle, and an ability for self-expression that could lead to a classic national debate on issues...
...Dealing Democratic incumbent. Congressman Jerry Voorhis. Nixon's headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate. In six crammed years, Dick Nixon rose from complete obscurity to become, at 40, the youngest Vice President since John Breckinridge (of the Buchanan Administration) and Ike's able right-hand...
Recapturing his Senate seat in 1946, Lodge was a disciple of the late Arthur Vandenberg and an authority on foreign affairs. When Dwight Eisenhower's political star began to rise, Lodge, like Nixon, was one of the first to spot it. He journeyed to Paris in 1951 and tried to persuade his friend (they first met in the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941) to run for the G.O.P. nomination. After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus...