WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 —Republican headquarters here, let it be known this week that there is, after all, one echo that it wished to keep reverberating in this Presidential campaign. It is the echo of Korea, as felt in Vietnam.
In studied imitation of Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign promise of 12 years ago—if elected, “I shall go to Korea“—Senator Barry Goldwater issued a statement saying that, if elected, he would ask General Eisenhower ”to go to South Vietnam.”
Now, as then, the purpose would be to let a highly respected American military man survey the scene and suggest a way out of a bad situation.
Now, as then, the political impulse arose from the desire to move beyond criticism of Democratic policy toward an answer to that difficult question, “What would the Republicans do?”
