National Affairs: Nothing Sacred

West Virginia's rabble-rousing old (80) Senator Matthew Neely has been advocating a campaign to take off political kid gloves and go after Dwight Eisenhower with brass knuckles. Last week Democrat Neely found a national arena where he could demonstrate what he meant.

In a speech before the United Auto Workers convention in Cleveland, Neely roared that the Eisenhower Administration is the "second everlasting monument to confusion," surpassed only by the Tower of Babel. The President, he acknowledged, was first in war. But he was also "the first of all Presidents on the golf course and...

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