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It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.

--John G. Saxe

Like the fabled blind men of Indostan, two Senators and a Representative last week dropped by SHAPE headquarters near Paris for a chat with General Eisenhower, then failed utterly to agree on what they observed. Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson was convinced that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary to ask." North Carolina's Democratic Senator Willis Smith thought the elephant looked more like a Democratic donkey: "I got no impression from General Eisenhower about his politics. But since the Republicans don't seem to want him, I don't know why we shouldn't claim him." North Carolina's Democratic Congressman Harold D. Cooley decided that Ike was not a political animal at all: "There was no indication that he is interested in politics or interested in leaving his present job on which he has made great progress."

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