Who's for Whom

Although the 1956 political tree has just begun to bud, politicians and pundits were busy last week picking possibilities.

Items:

P: New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, pondering what the Republicans might do if Dwight Eisenhower were to say no, wrote: "Now, I am not starting a presidential boom for anybody nor assuming that I could, but obviously it is no good to say there are plenty of Americans who can meet [the necessary] specifications unless you can name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas State College and later became president of Pennsylvania State College--one of the best college executives in the country. The name, if you have any doubt, is Milton S. Eisenhower."

P: Louisiana's Democratic Governor Robert Kennon, casting about for candidates more to his liking than--Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a class with men like Senator Byrd, Governor Allan Shivers and former Governor James Byrnes."

P: New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson left little doubt about the identity of his candidate. If Adlai Stevenson wants the nomination, said Anderson, "all he has to do is stand up and hold up his hand and say, 'Boys, here I am,' and they will have to fight off the delegates."

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