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...Johnson will, however, be forced to open up his sails, rather than keep them trimmed to the "moderation" line, in order to show the country a clearly-defined Democratic policy...

...2) Which way will Senate Democratic chief Lyndon B. Johnson lead his party, now that big majorities have replaced the wafer-thin margins he has been used to work with...

...You kick them hard in the right place and they double up and howl...

...As the one Republican with most at stake in the future, he sold this to a thoroughly dispirited GOP high command and to Mr...

...even Time has admitted this in its own majestic way Dwight Eisenhower if he had his buttons about him, was the last person in the world to have gone out spitting at the Democrats...

...the crushing defeats of William Knowland in California, George Malone in Nevada, and the Old Guard charmer, Senator John Bricker of Ohio...

...This bears out the pre-election prediction of one of the canniest tasters of the public mood, former Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle...

...Why the Vice President chose to cast off his grey flannel suit requires explanation...

...When Eisenhower and Nixon shouted about "radicals," Johnson mildly asked just whom they were talking about specifically...

...He said: "This is a young man's year...

...Many voted for him as an insurance policy against Nixon, who has managed to stir up a surprising amount of fear and dislike across the nation...

...He was beaten, significantly enough, in the suburbs, where voters are not ready to switch parties unless they are presented with attractive candidates...

...And so, for example, he tremendously pleased the stone- age Republicans of Indiana, extracting fantastic contributions from Hoosier reactionaries at a time when no one else could pry a buck loose...

...Scanning the election returns, new, young, personable faces with the promise of new ideas show up again and again...

...The results point to a reappraisal of the state's alcohol policy by Governor J. Lindsay Almond...

...He used to say contemptuously: "These liberals are chicken...

...Each time Dulles appears to get in a jam, he will be called before the Committee, asked coldly and politely to explain just what in the hell it is all about, and lectured...

...It is typical of Mr...

...The answer of course, was Harry Truman...

...regardless of party label...

...He does not have to look over his shoulder to see whether Ike is still smiling, for no one cares any more...

...The Democrats will move into control of the 86th Congress with almost no commitments to any one...

...In New York, Rockefeller was undoubtedly helped by a hidden factor...

...This may, at least, have the effect of cutting down the Secretary's contradictory statement from two a day to three a week...

...The Congressional Democrats will have to keep looking over their shoulders at Rockefeller, and stay ahead of him...

...Democrats picked up seats throughout the farm belt indicating deep distrust and resentment of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...

...Dewey never cleared up the impression that he eared not a whit for small farmers...

...And Nixon is no Robert Taft—that is, the late Senator from Ohio was inhibited from making the kind of attack that Nixon may well undertake...

...Almost certainly, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under that remarkably spry nonagenarian, Senator Green, will make a full-scale investigation of the utter confusion in our Far Eastern policy...

...Nixon was primarily responsible for the GOP campaign approach, which pictured the Democrats as "radicals," "socialists" and "hare-brained spenders...

...If Rockefeller can shape a progressive, effective program in New York and sell himself to the nation, he might well become the next President...

...In Maryland, Mayor Thomas d'Allesandro, a somewhat tarnished Baltimore politician, lost to Republican J. Glenn Beall for the Senate while the state as a whole swung heavily Democratic...

...One kick is enough...

...This leaves Johnson in an enviable position...

...He can move about among his colleagues, putting his friendly arm over a shoulder here, drawling out an apt compliment there, and put together a program...

...Eisenhower...

...His promised statement never came...

...Furthermore, Johnson must find a way to keep Georgia's Dick Russell and Illinois's Paul Douglas from acting like the Hatfields and the McCoys on civil rights...

...Whether the Democrats will have any new solutions cannot now be foreseen...

...His whopping victory in New York, jumping against a national tide all but dooms the vaulting ambitions of Vice President Nixon and gives the GOP an astonishing hope to capture the Presidency in 1960...

...It is a little embarrassing to ask a life line from a man you have been calling bad names in public...

...The reporters who gather around the long press table in the Senate Restaurant for morning coffee are willing to bet that Johnson will get the Senate rules changed to make a filibuster more difficult and persuade Northern Democrats they can do better pointing a finger at the Eisenhower Administration's shilly-shallying on civil rights than by starting a cold civil war with their brethren from the South...

...The proof is the victories of Republican Nelson Rockefeller in New York, capable young Democratic Governor Abe Ribicoff in Connecticut and Democratic Senators-elect Pete Williams in New Jersey and Phil Hart in Michigan...

...While the Democrats obviously profited from a sense of dismay and disillusionment with the rudderless Eisenhower Administration, they still suffered stunning defeats when their nominees were party hacks...

...The money for Harold Stassen's futile little adventure to scuttle Nixon in 1956 came from this group...

...Hays had opposed Governor Orval Faubus...

...on the fate of the unhappy Southerners stuck with "massive resistance...

...By Tris Coffin Rockefeller Bucks Landslide, Is Democrats' Man-to-Beat in '60 A deeply-flowing revolution in American politics, the first since the New Deal hurst on the scene in 1932, is forecast by last week's election returns...

...3,500 showed up...

...As the portents of a Democratic flood reached his efficient office in a corner of the Senate Office Building, Nixon asked himself: "Who has turned the tide in modern times...

...The Democrats in Congress will keep a close watch on the cost of living, unemployment and depressed areas, as well as farm prices, for these "gut" issues strongly influenced the GOP defeats...

...First of all, Nixon, while agile and industrious, is essentially shallow and imitative...

...counted at least 20 nations we had blithely guaranteed to defend with life, limb and atomic bombs...

...The President is not very smart when it comes to politics...

...Taft said they must be encouraged given a reason to fight...

...Republicans had hopefully talked of cramming 10,000 wildly cheering fans into a hall with 8,000 seats...

...Nelson Rockefeller, a complete newcomer with an engaging smile and modern views, rises out of the ashes of Republican defeat across the country as the most effective political personality on the national scene...

...and the resentment demonsrated against Senator Harry Byrd's "massive resistance" to school integration in Virginia...

...The Democrats want to know specifically where we are committed to military defense and under what conditions...

...Nixon and Eisenhower accepted this so thoroughly that the President earnestly lectured a press conference that, if all the Republicans had voted in Maine, it would have stayed with the GOP...

...This time, General Eisenhower, his political magic draining away his hold on his own party almost negligible, is likely to find the Democrats not so responsive to his wistful appeals...

...Minn...

...Those who know Nixon say he will sit down and carefully consider his chances and then decide his strategy He can concentrate on building his own organization (which requires money and boundless energy), stimulate an all-out Old Guard attack on Rockefeller as a "radical" or offer to make some kind of a deal...

...The Texas Senator refrained from moving into the campaign as a national figure clarifying the Democratic position...

...At the end of the last session, Senator Hubert Humphrey (D...

...Rockefeller, on the other hand, appealed to independents and Democrats and won in a record vote for a non-Presidential election...

...Lyndon Johnson, the unchallenged spokesman for the party in Congress sedulously avoided taking a stand on anything controversial during the campaign...

...The President's personal popularity also suffered a major setback, which was brought into the open Halloween night in Baltimore...

...This was true both in Arizona and in Maryland...

...A modern Republican was if you believed this, worse than a Democrat to the Old Guard...

...This is a search for young vigorous leadership...

...When he reaches a barrier, he hastily thumbs through the pages of recent political history until he finds a similar situation...

...This also contributed to the re-election of a Republican Congressman in the southwest urban area around Roanoke...

...Third, Nixon recalled a frequently mentioned bit of wisdom from the late Senator Joe McCarthy...

...He has two more years to live with them, and he will need Speaker Sam Rayburn and Johnson to save his Administration from falling apart...

...The Governor-elect was also careful not to identify himself with the Eisenhower Administration, pointing out that he had once served in Washington under Roosevelt and Truman...

...For example, in heavily conservative and Republican Indiana, a young Democratic mayor, Vance Hartke, with no strings tied on him by the old Democratic machine won so heavily for Senator Bill Jenner's seat that only three of the 11 Congressional seats in that state remained Republican...

...In the former Governor Ernest McFarland, an older, colorless conservative ex-Senator lost to the personable and vigorous reactionary Senator, Barry Goldwater...

...The personal defeat will not only reduce Eisenhower's influence in Congress, but will affect his standing in the GOP and world capitals...

...They're through fighting...

...Eisenhower's naievete that he believes sincerely that if he puts on the big grin, the Democrats will now tumble all over themselves to do his bidding...

...Many reporters who listened to the "new new Nixon" campaigning detected an odd hypnotic meter which sounded very much like a good imitation of McCarthy...

...Fourth, Nixon knew that the Eastern wing of the GOP—which had nominated Wendell Willkie, Tom Dewey and Ike—wanted to ditch him...

...Second, Nixon bought a theory first propounded ardently by the late Senator Taft: that the "real" reason the Republicans lost with such weary regularity to Roosevelt and Truman was that conservative Republicans stayed home...

...Rockefeller's victory means that Nixon, humiliated by the astounding Republican loss in California and the failure of his own bitter campaign tour, will now move heaven and earth to prevent the party from flowing toward Rockefeller...

...He does not have to worry about that painfully slim one- and two-vote margin...

...He pored over Truman's speeches so thoroughly he even repeated some of their phrases in his own "give 'em hell" tours He virtually developed a love affair with the peppery ex-President...

...The surprisingly heavy vote registered against Byrd's "massive resistance" in the urban districts of Virginia—by an unknown, independent candidate a woman physician—reveals strong feeling against the closing of public schools in that state...

...Disillusionment had turned voters against the GOP, but this might be switched if he could convince them that the Republicans, bad as they were, were mild compared to the socialistic, appeasing Democrats...

...The Vice President began to read every account he could of that campaign...

...Democratic Senate and Congressional victories, perhaps the worst defeat ever inflicted on a party in power, mean a searching look at every Eisenhower policy by the 86th Congress...

...Other Rights • The Democratic tide flowed deepest in the Midwest...

...At one point, Johnson apparently decided to back up Senator Theodore Francis Green's attack on the Dulles Quemoy policy, but had second thoughts...

...He did not take part in the tart exchange between Democratic Chairman Paul Butler and Senator George Smathers (D.-FIa...

...A fanatically partisan approach might revive Old Guard control in many states and lock up the 1960 nomination for Nixon...

...Two big questions still surround the election: (1) Why did Eisenhower and Nixon, when all the signs indicated a Democratic tide, wage the kind of name-calling campaign which can only complicate their relations with Congress in the next two years...

...What Nixon failed to understand was that Truman was appealing to a Midwest which has an affection for the small town judge and was deeply suspicious of the dapper, mustachioed Tom Dewey...

...On the other hand, the popular, moderate Democratic representative from Little Rock, Arkansas, Brooks Hays, who was also head of the Southern Baptist Church, was defeated by the write-in vote for a segregationist...

...At a feverishly-advertised campaign windup, the President spoke to rows and rows of empty seats...

...Fifth, Nixon recognized that American voters ordinarily vote against a party, rather than for it...