By last week any precampaign hopes that President Eisenhower could separate himself from Candidate Eisenhower dissolved in the crisp, electric, fall air. Under calculated and sustained personal attack from Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike last week used the forum of his press conference for jab after jab at his Democratic opponent. Then, within 24 hours, he delivered two roundhouse punches: the White House released two documents berating Stevenson for his stand on H-bomb testing and the draft (see box).
Carefully, Eisenhower summed up for newsmen his ideas on a variety of...