National Affairs: The Bogeyman

The bogeyman of the Democratic Party is Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, and he has more than earned its dislike.

No man in either party can approach his record of work in the 1954 campaign. By Election Day, Nixon will have covered more than 25,000 miles, to make more than 200 speeches in 31 states (not counting revisits). On tour he subsists mostly on tomato soup, milk and hamburgers, drives himself unmercifully 16 to 20 hours a day. The pace has melted fat off his middle and flattened his chipmunky cheeks. Last week the youthful Old Pro was off again in his...

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