THE PRESIDENCY: What's a Republican?

Midway in a politics-spiked press conference last week, President Eisenhower caught a question that he must often have asked himself:. "What do you think are the real issues that are going to settle this election?" The President paused to gather thought, crossed his arms over his chest, then spelled out the fundamental issue: Eisenhower Republicanism.

The voters, said he. must choose between two theories on "the management of America's affairs at home." His own:

"The Lincolnian dictum of doing for people the things they can't do well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal...

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