First out of the box at the presidential press conference last week was one of the bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME.
Feb. 2). But Ike, in his answer, shrugged it off: Anybody who tries to...
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