Political analysts caught on to Ike’s emphasis on reforming his party and banishing the ghosts of Coolidge and Hoover. New York Times columnist Arthur Krock saw that Ike had drawn a key lesson from the November 1954 defeat: “The Republican party must accept the political verities of the second half of the twentieth century instead of indulging in nostalgia for the dead past and continuing to run against Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.”
