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Party Matters. Daily, Press Secretary Hagerty emphasized that no visitor had talked politics with the President. Finally, Ike did take up party matters; during a one-hour visit, Sherman Adams reported on the preparations by the convention-arrangements committee for a short three-or-four-day convention, noting, to Ike's satisfaction, that Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be the keynote speaker. But the tacit ban on politics by all hands until the chief himself broached the subject jarred sharply with optimistic Republican organization insistence on the status quo. The indication: a realistic Chief Executive once again was testing himself against the job ahead.