I like IKE,ypu like IKE,everybody likes IKE.

In 1952 when Dwight D.Eisenhower ran for President,there was a tone,a song shown with cartoon and it went like this I like IKE,you like IKE everybody likes IKE and funny thing it was true,indeed,America was in love with war time hero general IKE,a man of little ego and very likeable.I saw the cartoon played with song back in 1984 at the Smithsonian,I heard again today watching documentary,on public T.V,Eisenhower secret war,base on Evan Thomas(a very fine writer and although he is grandson of Norman Thomas know Socialist,who ran many times for President and once was admirer of RFK,Evan over years has become more conservative)book "Eisenhower bluff."
Funny earler today a scene from documentary cross my mind.It a rally for Eisenhower at Madison Square Garden,Clark Gable was MC,full of Hollywood bigwig,not executives,but actors big name,it could never happen today,of course,no Hollywood big named actor would ever support a Republican,it's sort against there religion.
And before seeing the documentary,I also throught of that tone,song I like IKE,you like IKE,everybody likes IKE.
 Of course,the documentary showed much of 1952 Republican convention but didn't show one colorful highlights or lowlights depending on your view.When Taft supporter,the very colorful Everett Dirksen was speaking,Governor Thomas Dewey walk in and Dirksen spotting him in corner of his eye,said,"you have let us down road of defeat twice before now trying to do third time"the crowd went crazy and Dirksen throw away his chance to be Eisenhower running mate and Nixon became the one.