Word: deweyitis
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...Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff...
...abrasive name of Dirksen, who had insulted Tom Dewey in a convention speech, was brought up under a curious circumstance but never seriously considered. Shortly after the meeting began, Senator Frank Carlson got a message that Robert Taft would like to talk to him. Carlson left the conference, and Taft told him that, although he had no right to ask it, he had promised immediately prior to the convention that Dirksen's name would be considered for the vice-presidency. Would Carlson, as a favor, nominate Dirksen so that Taft could honor his promise? Carlson would...
...state is just going to have to get used to the fact that I'm no Joe McCarthy." In 1948, when Earl Warren was the vice-presidential candidate, Goodie decided his time had come. His dismay on the day after the election was acute. "If you think Tom Dewey and Governor Warren are disappointed," he wailed, "think of me. I had the furniture in the governor's mansion rearranged a dozen times." In 1950 Knight, spurred on by his right-wing supporters, announced that he would run against Warren. But when Warren announced his own candidacy, Goodie prudently...
...sent his interviewers out to ask: If President Eisenhower does not run, who is your choice for the Republican presidential nomination? Among Republican voters, Gallup reported last week, the top choices were: U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren 25%, Vice President Richard Nixon 19%, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt (1940 and 1944), to Dewey (1948) and Adlai Stevenson...