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 principle. No walls were built. No threatening foreign bases were established. One war was ended, and incipient wars were blocked. I doubt that anyone can persuade you that in the past 21 months there has been anything constructive in the conduct of our foreign relations to equal any part of that eight-year record."

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