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The Road Ahead For Dwight Eisenhower

The President’s off-the-cuff remarks in the Sheraton Park ballroom election night startled even his closest advisers. By tradition, a Presidential candidate’s victory statement consists of some humbly grateful words for the party workers, some magnanimous words for the losers and a plea for national unity. Dwight Eisenhower’s statement was a sustained and singularly graceless whoopee. He mentioned his supporters at the outset, to be sure; but less to thank them than to compliment them for having “understood what the Administration [oops]—the Republican Party—has been trying to do in these past four years.” From that point on he simply crowed: “I think that modern Republicanism has now proved itself. And America has approved modern Republicanism…. It will continue to increase in power and influence for decades to come.”

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The Road Ahead For Dwight Eisenhower

The President’s off-the-cuff remarks in the Sheraton Park ballroom election night startled even his closest advisers. By tradition, a Presidential candidate’s victory statement consists of some humbly grateful words for the party workers, some magnanimous words for the losers and a plea for national unity. Dwight Eisenhower’s statement was a sustained and singularly graceless whoopee. He mentioned his supporters at the outset, to be sure; but less to thank them than to compliment them for having “understood what the Administration [oops]—the Republican Party—has been trying to do in these past four years.” From that point on he simply crowed: “I think that modern Republicanism has now proved itself. And America has approved modern Republicanism…. It will continue to increase in power and influence for decades to come.”