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...their efforts to draft him lest they prove "divisive and destructive" to the party. "I just don't have the ambition or the need or inner drive-or whatever the word is- to get in again," he has said. But it was once said of Thomas E. Dewey that "the only cure for presidentitis is embalming fluid," and Rocky has been waging a noncampaign that will leave him in a strong position if Romney's bid fails. Nelson did not appear conspicuously unhappy when supporters unfurled a Rocky-for-President banner during a G.O.P. meeting in Long Island...
Shannon also faults Bobby for his failure to take charge of New York State's unruly Democratic Party. "Not since New York Republicans began a dozen years ago to wipe Thomas E. Dewey's shoe polish from their faces," writes Shannon, has any politician enjoyed so promising an opportunity to make his influence felt. But Bobby has written "a record of defeat, inconsequence and confused purposes" in the state. And, warns Shannon, "if Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay can defeat Robert Kennedy's party in New York, they may be the men to defeat...
Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...
...company totted up record sales of $26 million last year, which is a long Philippine sea mile from its beginning in 1909, a decade after Commodore Dewey routed the Spanish colonialists in Manila Bay. Founded by a group of U.S. veterans of the Spanish-American War, Lusteveco got its modest start by bunkering coal-hungry...
...Gotta Move, Man." Simultaneously, the Republican Coordinating Committee rushed into the act. Twenty-six members of the 36-man policymaking panel had been at work on a riot paper, drafted by two-time G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, Florida Representative William Cramer (author of the House-passed antiriot bill) and Colorado Governor John Love. Accusing Lyndon Johnson of a good share of responsibility for the state of anarchy that prevailed in the nation's riot-torn cities, it also hinted that a conspiracy was behind the disorder...