"She is a San Francisco liberal."
That is how Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas -- who graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School -- described Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on CNN last week.
That description of San Francisco may make sense now, but there was a time when it did not.
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower boarded his presidential plane -- the Columbine III -- on Aug. 21, 1956, to go to the Republican National Convention, he did not head for the Midwest or the South. He flew to San Francisco International Airport and then took a limousine to the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square.
The mayor of San Francisco then was George Christopher, a Republican. The venue for that year's convention was the Cow Palace, an arena that had been built to host rodeos.
That fall, the City of San Francisco voted for President Eisenhower over Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, 51.53% to 48.01%
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