About the only thing officials of the Soviet Union and the United States appeared to agree upon last week was the intellectual deficiencies of Mr. Eisenhower, called “stupid” by Comrade Khrushchev, and “brainless” by Senator Kerr. national review agrees with Senator Capehart that Senator Kerr should be “ashamed” of his remark about the President’s not having any “brains” in fiscal affairs. It involves one of those matters in which the interests of truth should, clearly, be subordinated to those of good manners. And in so far as it implies that the President is less brainy about fiscal problems than about problems-in-general, its effect can only be to inculcate upon the nation a false sense of security.
Bulletin: Senator Kerr has now decided that who really has no brains is Senator Capehart. Which leaves us trying to remember: which side were they on when the phrase was “brains or guts,” and the speaker was Joe McCarthy, and the issue whether the dignity of the Senate had been compromised?
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