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Proposed by his own committeeman, Earl Warren got early support from Texas' redhaired Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, the South's most potent Republican. Chairman Spangler seconded the motion. Representatives of the Dewey and Bricker camps nodded agreement. In the face of such agreement at the top, all other candidacies collapsed. Earl Warren was chosen unanimously...
Ohio's John Bricker, plowing on against odds favoring Tom Dewey, moved into California last week. At a press conference in San Francisco's ancient St. Francis Hotel, he surprised newsmen with his growing sureness as a campaigner, pleased photographers by turning his handsome profile. Then, before the heavily Republican Commonwealth Club, which had heard from Harold Ickes on the day before, John Bricker made his fightingest speech...
Said John Bricker: "Is that the kind of leadership which is indispensable for keeping America's position of leadership in the world order? War in the Pacific might not have occurred if the American people had been informed of the Japanese menace and we had been prepared. I say to you that ignorance of the Administration, or its failure to inform the public, whichever it was, is one of the gravest derelictions in all our history...
Next day John Bricker lunched at the executive mansion with California's Governor Earl Warren. Then, at San Jose, he shook hands with at least half of California's delegation to the G.O.P. convention. He was missing no bets...
Governor John Bricker of Ohio, now the only candidate actively campaigning, turned up at Chicago's Union League Club, where he demanded that the U.S. hold tight to its wartime bases. He crossed over into Indiana, announced he would "intensify" his campaign. Then significantly he proceeded on his first campaign visit to the Northwest...