 However , some newspapers disagreed . The Baltimore Sun noted that Nixon " did not deal in any way with the underlying question of propriety " , while the St. Louis Post @-@ Dispatch called the address " a carefully contrived soap opera " . Columnist Walter Lippmann called the wave of support for Nixon " disturbing ... with all the magnification of modern electronics , simply mob law " ; discussing the speech with a dinner guest , he said , " That must be the most demeaning experience my country has ever had to bear . " Columnist Thomas Stokes criticized Eisenhower for equivocating on the question of his running mate until " the young man himself — the accused — had to step in and take over . And how he took over ! " Through his presidency , Eisenhower would continue to be accused of being indecisive . 
