Word: deweyitis
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...first Eisenhower wanted to give the most important Cabinet post-Secretary of State-to Tom Dewey, but Dewey felt strongly that he should stay on in Albany. He warmly recommended John Foster Dulles for the job, and Ike readily agreed...
...vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost to Herbert Lehman. In 1950, the Democratic Administration drafted him again to do a job no one thought could be carried off: a Japanese peace treaty. Negotiated practically singlehanded, after an arduous...
...morning he broke into his round of golf to greet New York's Governor Tom Dewey, who flew down en route to a Miami vacation for a conference "on Korea and other policy problems" (see below). Next day the principal guest was W. Walter Williams, the Seattle mortgage banker who ran the Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon during the campaign. One topic of discussion: How can the G.O.P. hang on to the interest and enthusiasm of the 2,000,000 members of the Citizens group, many of them independents or nominal Democrats...
Before he left New York last week for his conference with Ike Eisenhower in Georgia, Tom Dewey flatly took himself out of the running for a Cabinet job. Yet newsmen were still a little skeptical as they watched Ike and Dewey in close conference, on a stone bench overlooking the golf course, through most of one afternoon. Then a statement from Ike made it final: "Governor Dewey emphatically reaffirmed his purpose of continuing in his important post as governor of New York. This purpose, of course, precludes, at least for the present, any thought of requesting him to accept...
...Dewey had ruled himself out of the Cabinet, the phrase "for the present" seemed to mean that Ike was not ruling out the possibility of offering Dewey a Cabinet post sometime in the future. And Dewey had clearly established himself as a top adviser in the new Administration. Said Ike: "He has promised to be available whenever necessary for consultation and advice and for any future work of an emergency or temporary character. In view of his great abilities and unusual experience . . . and because he is one of the Republican Party's outstanding leaders, Governor Dewey's availability...