National Affairs: Harold & Ike

As the White House correspondents had it figured, Harold Stassen's 9:45 a.m. appointment with Dwight Eisenhower could only mean that Childe Harold needed a job. It was more than two years since he was flattened in the wreck of his "Dump Nixon" movement at the Republican National Convention. It was nine months since he had turned State Department hair grey as the President's special aide on disarmament and finally had been shown to the gate. Then last May, running for G.O.P. nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, he was flattened again by Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur McGonigle. But when Stassen's visit lasted almost...

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