“People who saw, in the flesh, the candidate’s tall, straight figure and ruddy, smiling face, and who heard from his own lips his straightforward, un-oratorical talk, caught again something they remembered from their youth. He didn’t quip; he didn’t sound erudite; he was like a member of the family.” The effect was noticed by the press. “Eisenhower’s stock is rising,” observed Roscoe Drummond of the Christian Science Monitor. “Ike is no fancy orator . . . and he occasionally will trip over his syntax.” But his audiences were huge, sympathetic, and star-struck. “He is good on the hustings not
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