National Affairs: Who's for Whom

On his farm at Myrtle Point. Ore. last week, 85-year-old Theodore Milton ("Tex") Stover got to reminiscing about one of his nephews, a youngster named Dwight Eisenhower, whom he last saw when Ike was nine. "That boy kinda worried his mother," said Uncle Tex. "We used to talk about that boy—thought he might become a criminal ... he was such a fun-loving youngster. He used to saw the backs off the kitchen chairs, but we could never see him do it." Stover said he was proud of the boy today, but still planned to vote as he always had—for the...

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