ABSTRACT
Waiter Lippmann was mostly worried about beating Senator Robert Taft, favorite of the Republican isolationists. To block the Ohioan Lippmann worked behind the scenes with Ike's promoters, particularly Senator Leverett Salton-stall. Lippmann went off to Europe for six weeks at the end of April, where he saw Eisenhower in Paris and gave a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge, later published as a small book entitled Isolation and Alliances. Lippmann was delighted by both conventions, and celebrated the nominations of Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower as a "triumphant vindication of the American system." Though repelled by McCarthyism and sympathetic to the victims of the witch-hunt, Lippmann nonetheless wrote relatively little about the issue. This was due partly to his preoccupation with foreign affairs, partly to his insensitivity to some of the civil liberties abuses of the government's own "loyalty" program.
