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...boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees passed the word to G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn that Smith as Navy Secretary was no go. On that basis Gates persuaded Franke, by then considerably recovered, to reconsider...
...committeemen and women present welcomed Alcorn's carefully drawn nine-point reorganizing program -two million more precinct workers, year-long fund-raising campaigns, more emphasis on college-age voters and teenagers, etc. But when it came to the philosophy that the remodeled machine should push, conservatives were less than enthusiastic. And they had the meeting's stronger voices...
Next day the meeting heard from the new Senate campaign chairman, Arizona's right-wing Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had flown out from Washington, been weathered in at Chicago, wired an urgent message. Alcorn's strategies, he said...
Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
...Meade Alcorn would be kidding himself and his titular boss in the White House if he failed to hurry home with the message that the Eisenhower stock was at a new low with most of the party, that the oldtime conservatives -who never put much stock in Ike anyway -were ready, willing and thirsting to take control if something didn't happen fast...