ABSTRACT
The statistics showed clearly that Republican Congressional gains had been extremely modest in comparison with the Dwight D. Eisenhower endorsement. Only twenty-two seats had been picked up in the House, eight fewer than in the 1950 mid-term elections. All major groups of Eisenhower voters gave significant fractions of their votes to Democratic House and Senate candidates. And although 15 percent liked Stevenson because of his party, only 5 percent cited Eisenhower’s political affiliation as an asset. Truman, the heir of the responsibility for what had happened at Yalta, which both the Republican platform and Eisenhower had repudiated, had fallen in public esteem to where only 32 percent of the voters approved of his Presidency. Eisenhower’s involvement in politics, therefore, had been well timed. The fighting campaigner of 1948 fame entered the battle with, as Arthur Krock noted, “a protracted assault on the personal integrity of General Eisenhower that is without parallel for a man in Mr. Truman’s position.”
