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Before making his long-contemplated announcement, Dewey, in the orderly, precise manner that characterized his public career, had arranged for the transfer of his power as the leader of New York Republicanism. His chosen heir: Senator Irving M. Ives (see below...
Seven Polls. Three times-once during the 1952 campaign, once at the Eisenhower inauguration, and again in the Senator's Washington apartment suite last June-Dewey and Ives held lengthy conversations. Each time Dewey said that he intended to retire from politics and told of his plans for the Ives succession as governor. Each time Ives demurred, urged Dewey to change his mind...
Last January, Dewey ordered a series of seven monthly public-opinion polls. How would he run against Averell Harriman, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Robert Wagner Jr.? Far more important, how would Irving Ives-the only man Dewey had even considered as his successor-do against the three most likely Democratic candidates? The polls told Dewey what he wanted to know: either Ives or he could win over any Democratic opposition. In some of the surveys Ives ran even better than Dewey...
...Dewey planned to make his decision public in June, but his last talk with Ives and a five-hour session with Attorney General Herbert Brownell (speaking for Dwight Eisenhower) persuaded him to hold off the announcement until this fall...
...date was set for the eve of the Republican state convention, to be held next week in Syracuse. But Dewey heard the outriders of a "Draft-Dewey" movement trumpeting in the distance, and promptly moved up his schedule by two weeks. Two days before he was to make his television appearance, he sat down to write his speech, consulting with Irving Ives by telephone. Between them they made final arrangements, e.g., by selecting an Ives-man to take over as Republican state chairman...