Word: blissfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costly Meddling. Upon taking over as state chairman, Bliss got a massive registration drive under way, traveled about the state instilling into local Republican groups his gospel of organized enthusiasm. Result: in 1950, despite an intense and well-financed drive by organized labor to defeat the architect of the Taft-Hartley Act, Senator Robert A. Taft won reelection by a smashing margin, and the G.O.P. gained four additional House seats...
Since 1950's dramatic reversal, Bliss and the Ohio G.O.P. have suffered only one important setback. In 1958 a group of politically myopic Ohio businessmen succeeded in getting a right-to-work referendum on the ballot despite Bliss's impassioned warnings that the move would prove to be political poison. Governor William O'Neill endorsed right-to-work and lost, along with Senator John Bricker and scores of other Republicans. Furious at the costly meddling by amateurs, Bliss called 135 leading Ohio Republicans to a meeting, gave them a three-hour lecture course in practical politics...
...Reawakening. After Kennedy won the presidency despite the loss of Ohio's electoral votes, the Republican National Committee appointed Bliss to head a task force to find out why the G.O.P. had fared so poorly in the cities-of 41 U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more, Nixon won a majority in only 14. The Bliss report put much of the blame on lackadaisical party organizations, urged a buildup of permanent local organizations with fulltime, paid staffs. In the 1962 elections, Republicans did much better in the cities. Pennsylvania's Governor-elect William Scranton...
...party's most strikingly successful state chairman, Bliss stands high in G.O.P. national councils. He is national vice chairman of the party, head of the Midwest regional body of state chairmen. This week he and the other regional heads will meet with National Chairman William E. Miller to "pursue our organizational reawakening," as Miller...
...Bliss is an obvious possibility to succeed Miller as national chairman some day. "I have not been interested in being national chairman up to now," says Bliss. "I reserve the right to change my mind." In the meantime, his job, he says, is "electing Republicans in Ohio." He has done so well at it that there are few major political offices in Ohio still held by Democrats, but the 1962 returns were barely counted before Bliss was back in his red leather chair making plans to elect even more Republicans...