 The senator alleged that Stevenson had downplayed the threat of communism , and was thus unfit to be president . He affirmed that Eisenhower was the only man fit to lead the country in ridding the government of corruption and communism . Reading parts of a letter from the wife of a serviceman fighting in Korea , who , despite her financial woes , had scraped together $ 10 to donate to the campaign , Nixon promised that he would never cash that check . 
