Nation: Ike on the Frontier

The Republicans do not have a present President to carry their campaign flag. But they do have a past President who ranks among history's great crowd pleasers—and last week ex-President Eisen hower was wowing them around the land with his denunciations of "the new—farout—frontier."

Ike made a triumphant entrance into San Francisco—where 120,000 Californians jammed the sidewalks of the Montgomery Street financial district to give him a roaring welcome. He was there to give Dick Nixon a boost in his campaign for Governor; if there was ever any doubt about Ike's enthusiasm for his...

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