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Richard Nixon has driven Max Lerner, New York Post columnist and self-proclaimed atheist, to prayer. Mr. Lerner concludes his post-election lament by pledging, hereby serve notice that during the next four years I shall pray every night for the health and strength and life of the President of the United States.” On top of everything else, Mr. Eisenhower can now be called the Instrument of the Lord.

Even in bitter defeat. Democratic leaders are exemplifying the copybook virtues. In the case of Mrs. Roosevelt, generosity: it is important, she proclaimed—though if our memory serves us she didn’t learn this from her husband, who lost only to foreign politicians—“to be a good loser as well as a good winner.” In the case of Senator Kefauver, stick-to-it-iveness: his palm still wet from shaking hands for Stevenson, he began, with hardly a pause, shaking hands for Kefauver in 1960.

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Richard Nixon has driven Max Lerner, New York Post columnist and self-proclaimed atheist, to prayer. Mr. Lerner concludes his post-election lament by pledging, hereby serve notice that during the next four years I shall pray every night for the health and strength and life of the President of the United States.” On top of everything else, Mr. Eisenhower can now be called the Instrument of the Lord.

Even in bitter defeat. Democratic leaders are exemplifying the copybook virtues. In the case of Mrs. Roosevelt, generosity: it is important, she proclaimed—though if our memory serves us she didn’t learn this from her husband, who lost only to foreign politicians—“to be a good loser as well as a good winner.” In the case of Senator Kefauver, stick-to-it-iveness: his palm still wet from shaking hands for Stevenson, he began, with hardly a pause, shaking hands for Kefauver in 1960.