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ed, “should first be allowed to investigate itself”). There is Senator Bricker, with his tiresome chant about amending the Constitution by treaty. There are those “Right-wing Republicans,” the “extreme conservatives,” always reminding the President of those Right-wing noises he made back when he was a candidate, and refusing, stubbornly, to be educated in the ways of progressive moderation, always expecting National Policy to echo those noises, and always unable to get it through their heads that Conservative equals Liberal equals Moderate equals Progressive equals Traditionalist. There are the Congressmen who have repeatedly “deserted him to cater to the home-town vote.” Always, of course, there’s Joe McCarthy, with his “antics,” his “tactics,” his “disheartening spectacles,” and his “gaudy inquiries.” Finally, there is the people, who “appall” the President by their “almost complete lack of information… on subjects we have talked about…”

Mr. Donovan’s chief literary effort in connection with The Inside Story appears to have gone into the search for verbs and adjectives expressing Mr. Eisenhower’s reaction to these Nomen. The President “fretted.” The President “was exasperated.” The President was “astonished.” “It was almost incomprehensible to him that any Republicans could doubt the sincerity of his own motives.” “This harassed and aggravated Eisenhower.” His “vexation” (vis-à-vis the Rightwingers) “reached such extremes” that he considered founding a new political party. The President “sometimes simply exploded with exasperation.” “The thought of eighty investigations got Eisenhower’s back up. Be affirmative, he bade the Cabinet.”

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ed, “should first be allowed to investigate itself”). There is Senator Bricker, with his tiresome chant about amending the Constitution by treaty. There are those “Right-wing Republicans,” the “extreme conservatives,” always reminding the President of those Right-wing noises he made back when he was a candidate, and refusing, stubbornly, to be educated in the ways of progressive moderation, always expecting National Policy to echo those noises, and always unable to get it through their heads that Conservative equals Liberal equals Moderate equals Progressive equals Traditionalist. There are the Congressmen who have repeatedly “deserted him to cater to the home-town vote.” Always, of course, there’s Joe McCarthy, with his “antics,” his “tactics,” his “disheartening spectacles,” and his “gaudy inquiries.” Finally, there is the people, who “appall” the President by their “almost complete lack of information… on subjects we have talked about…”

Mr. Donovan’s chief literary effort in connection with The Inside Story appears to have gone into the search for verbs and adjectives expressing Mr. Eisenhower’s reaction to these Nomen. The President “fretted.” The President “was exasperated.” The President was “astonished.” “It was almost incomprehensible to him that any Republicans could doubt the sincerity of his own motives.” “This harassed and aggravated Eisenhower.” His “vexation” (vis-à-vis the Rightwingers) “reached such extremes” that he considered founding a new political party. The President “sometimes simply exploded with exasperation.” “The thought of eighty investigations got Eisenhower’s back up. Be affirmative, he bade the Cabinet.”