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.