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...Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...predicted, his colleague John Bricker bowed out. Said Taft gratefully: "I have never seen a new Senator who gained so rapidly the affection and respect of his colleagues...
Points West. First stop on his schedule was a meeting of some 2,000 of Ohio's top Republicans in Columbus on July 31. At that meeting, Senator John Bricker was expected to renounce his presidential ambitions in favor of his fellow Ohioan. Ohio's G.O.P. executive committee would formally choose Taft, and Ohio's favorite son would be off. Then he would relax for a month at Quebec's Murray Bay, where three generations of Tafts have relaxed before him. In September, he would take the road. On his itinerary: California, Oregon, Washington...
...exciting week in both Houses of Congress. On the Senate side, Ohio's John Bricker literally got shot at (see below). In the House, Wisconsin's Glenn Davis* won a washing machine by clouting a 200-ft., fifth-inning home run in the annual congressional baseball game. The G.O.P. beat the Democrats...