REPUBLICANS: President Maker?

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At Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft is too."

"I wasn't going to let him catch me on that one," Donald later explained to Dad (who could scarcely have done better himself). "If I told him who I liked, then he might think...

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