General Wesley Clark, the latest Democrat to enter the race for President, hopes to follow in the footsteps of another general turned politician, DWIGHT EISENHOWER, whose first campaign swing drew the attention of a TIME cover story:
They saw Ike, and they liked what they saw. They liked him because he turned out to be an amazingly good campaigner: he could shake a man's hand and say the gracious word graciously; he could catch a delegate's name and remember it 24 hours later; and he could shoulder gently through a harassing crowd and never get harassed. They liked him for his...