Off and on, over the past eight months of political speculation, an appealing idea repeatedly has raised its pretty head: Let Mr. Eisenhower be urged to come out of retirement at Gettysburg, and accept a Vice Presidential nomination on the Republican ticket.
Every time the idea has popped up, some scornful fellow has come along to lop it off. Arthur Krock timidly watered this posy in a column last October, only to have an unfriendly lawyer tread it underfoot two days later. Mr. Buckley, of national review, generally is regarded as father to the plan; but it is widely said that he has here sired an illegitimate child. I myself modestly advanced the thought not long ago in my own editorial columns, only to be shelled to cover by local students of the Constitution.
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