Wardrobe Problems

Mamie Eisenhower had a new permanent, and had put together a traveling wardrobe of durable blues and blacks. She was ready for the campaign. Her husband had a much more difficult wardrobe problem.

For four weeks, Dwight Eisenhower had listened while advisers, some invited and more not, had their say about how to select and tailor the issues. Many of those who came to advise had widely different opinions, tugging the candidate one way and another (e.g., Northern Republicans wanted him to come out for a federal fair-employment-practices law, Southerners wanted nothing of the kind). His sources of information and advice ranged from Statesman John Foster Dulles to two Hillsdale, Mich, boys who sent him a Walt Disney comic book and asked for his "autograth."

While Ike struggled with decisions, a backbreaking schedule was taking form.

In Boise, Idaho this week, Ike will confer with Republican governors of ten western states, and make a political speech on the steps of the State Capitol. Then he will fly to Kansas City, Kans., for a meeting with Midwest Republican leaders. Next, he will move into the East to speak at the national American Legion convention in New York City on August 25.

After Labor Day, Candidate Eisenhower will make a two-day airplane tour across seven southern states (Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas), flying in a chartered DC-6 and making speeches at airports. At least ten cities in the Democrats' Solid South will be on Ike's high-flying schedule. It will be the most extensive Southern tour ever made by a presidential nominee.

Back from the South, he will make his first big television-radio speech of the campaign from Philadelphia's Convention Hall on September 4. Two days later, he will be at Kasson, Minn., where 100,000 are expected to hear him speak at the National Plowing Contest. He will move on to Indianapolis for a Republican rally September 9. After a speech to the American Federation of Labor convention in New York City in mid-September, he will turn westward for a whistle-stop tour through the Midwest farmland.

There will be many more stops on the schedule before it is complete. One of these was pointed out last week by California's Governor Earl Warren. The California Poll, supported by a group of newspapers, shows Ike leading Stevenson 53% to 39%. But Earl Warren called his state "doubtful," and said it can be won only by a hard campaign. Replied Ike: That's exactly the kind of campaign it will be.

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