The Press: The Press & the President

Huddled deep in their paper-cluttered examining rooms, the pundits of the press, those professional diagnosticians of the body politic, scrutinized the big, double-barreled question: Will and should Ike run? The President's words at Key West were examined like smears beneath a microscope. The circuitous comments and no comments of his close associates, even the guesses of fellow journalists, were treated as seriously as lab reports. But the diagnosis was so tricky that each diagnostician found himself in the end relying on his own instincts, usually curved to his own political bent:

¶In the Republican New York Herald Tribune, Columnists Joseph and Stewart...

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