“I still resented being portrayed as a demagogue or a liar or as the sewer dwelling denizen of Herblock cartoons in the Washington Post,” he later wrote. “As the attacks became more personal, I sometimes wondered where party loyalty left off and masochism began. The girls [who turned eight and six in 1954] were reaching an impressionable age, and neither Pat nor I wanted their father to become the perennial bad guy of American politics.”
