As Dwight Eisenhower wound up three weeks and 6,860 miles of campaigning by plane and train last week, one sobering prospect appeared to lie uppermost in his mind. For other Republicans there would be more prop-stops and politicking in the years to come. But for him, 1958 marked the last campaign in which his own position was at stake, in which his own concerns could be affected. Propelled by that thought, the President dwelled often and with great earnestness on his remaining two years in the White House, on the legacy of achievement he hoped that those two years would...
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