Fifteen thousand people jammed Cleveland's Public Auditorium to hear Ike Eisenhower on the night of Dick Nixon's radio & television speech. Here too, emotions were wound tight, for Ike was deep in Taft country and, with Taft's help, had been charming the suspicious and captivating the hostile at whistle stops all along the way. Ike stayed out of sight while the Cleveland audience listened transfixed to the voice of Dick Nixon, piped into the auditorium's public-address system. When Nixon finished, the audience came to its feet cheering the empty rostrum. The band burst...
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