Ike-Nixon Again.

Eisenhower and Nixon ran for reelection against a Democratic ticket that was once again headed by Stevenson. Senator Kefauver was the Democrats' vice-presidential nominee. Stevenson had outdueled Kefauver during the Democratic primaries and went on to win the nomination over Gov. Averell Harriman of New York at a raucous party convention. Southern Democrats had split with northern liberals over a civil rights platform, but a compromise was finally reached. Kefauver emerged from the convention on the offensive, attacking Republicans for fostering racial segregation and challenging Eisenhower to put a unilateral end to Hbomb testing. The Democrats also continued to champion the causes of labor in 1956 and pressed for a fourday workweek. But, in fact, they had little ammunition with which they could attack the Republicans on the domestic economic front. Under Ike the rate of inflation had been reduced to 1 percent...