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15. Adlai Stevenson ran twice against Dwight Eisenhower.

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During an event during the campaign, it was noticed that that he had a hole in his shoe which a photographer raced to capture.

At the time Stevenson was being derided as an aloof aristocratic intellectual divorced from the common man by Eisenhower's running mate Nixon. He responded to these attacks by emphasizing the hole in his shoe by saying "Better a hole in one's shoe than a hole in one's head."

Richard Nixon was very uncomfortable with intellectuals, and appealed to basic instincts.

He set the Republican party on the course from being the party of Lincoln and Grant to becoming the party of the Ku Klux Klan, which is, of course what it today.

It should be said that Eisenhower was never really comfortable with Nixon, but tolerated him only.

I can't imagine that Eisenhower, having liberated concentration camps and seen them for real, was comfortable with racism. His greatest flaw was tolerating McCarthyism, a subtly antisemitic appeal but nothing like we see today.