THE NATION: Ordeal by Campaign

A presidential campaign is more than a debate, more than a chance for the electorate to compare the "views" of candidates. It is also an ordeal, a trial of character. As debate, the Nixon case did not amount to much on either side; the Democrats started an argument, lost it and wound up defending Stevenson's fund which had been brought to light by the Nixon case. As ordeal, however, the Nixon case was by far the most important event so far, in the campaign.

Few verdicts of that obscure judge, public opinion, have ever been plainer than the reaction to...

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