Eisenhower directly contradicted the party chairman: “I hope that this whole thing will be a matter of history and of memory by the time the next election comes around. I don’t believe we can live in fear of each other forever, and I really hope and believe that this administration is proceeding decently and justly to get this thing straightened out.” Pressed further, he said he hoped “the suspicion on the part of the American people” that the government was infiltrated by subversive elements “will have disappeared through the accomplishments of the executive branch.”
