REPUBLICANS: Bull Mooser

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Among the Maryland delegates introduced to Candidate Dwight Eisenhower at the 1952 G.O.P. convention was Johns Hopkins University Professor Malcolm Moos. "Professor of what?" asked Ike, shaking hands. "Political science," responded bony (5 ft. 10 in., 130 Ibs.), "Mac" Moos. "Well," said Ike, "I am going to be one of your first students." Last week the student hired the professor as chief presidential speechwriter.

The son of a onetime Minnesota Republican state chairman who revered Teddy Roosevelt, Mac Moos, 42, lightly labels himself "a full-blooded Bull Moose Republican," is an energetic mixture of egghead author and practical politician. While writing a history of the Republican Party, he worked up to Republican Party chief in Baltimore, later helped out the White House speechwriting team on a part-time basis. In one sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer his popularity to congressional candidates. Proved by sad experience, it is Pupil Eisenhower's campaign problem No. 1 in 1958.