Adams asked his attorney general to write to the county clerk in Abilene, Kansas—Eisenhower’s hometown—to see if Ike had ever registered with either party. In return he got a memorable letter of regret from a crusty old clerk, C. F. Moore, who wrote that Eisenhower had not voted in the county since 1927, and then added: “Dwight’s father was a Republican and always voted the Republican ticket up until his death, however that has nothing to do with the son as many differ from the fathers of which I am sorry to see.... I don’t think he has any politics.”
