Nation: Too Sad to Talk About

Kennedy wasn't talking about foreign policy. But Ike, who used to be bland about it, was now speaking out in partisan terms. Last week he bustled about in New England, and in Kennedy's own Boston he scathingly denounced the Administration's record overseas as "too sad to talk about."

Then he summed up his indictment by defending his own eight years in office in the most succinct and devastating paragraph of the campaign to date:

"In those eight years we lost no inch of ground to tyranny. We witnessed no abdication of international responsibility. We accepted no compromise of pledged word or withdrawal from...