Word: deweyitis
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...many voters stayed away from the polls. It was not disinterest, but rather lack of a choice of candidates. We (and you would be surprised at how many there were of us) simply did not want to feel responsible in any part for the election of either Truman or Dewey...
...Dewey, by his own agreement and choice, will stay in the background. He will be responsible for New York, and New York only. Ike supporters suspected that he timed his trip to the Far East deliberately to keep out of the way. He could afford to let Eisenhower be elected to two terms, serving in a key job himself (say Secretary of State-see below) and be only 58 when the second Eisenhower term...
...introducing his visitor, Lieut. General Ned Almond only said what he thought a lot of people believed. "Governor Dewey has been a candidate for the Presidency and, for all we know out here, he may be a candidate again next year," the general said as he presented Governor Dewey to his X Corps staff officers in Korea. Thereupon, Tom Dewey rose and said it more flatly than he had ever said it at home: "I am not a candidate and will definitely oppose any attempt to make me a candidate next year...I have no plans to ever...
That brought up a different question. Could it be that Dewey, first of the big Republicans to come out for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23), hopes to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower cabinet? He wasn't saying. But Dewey's Asiatic tour is taking him to Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates...
...Financed by Collier's, for which Dewey will write some articles...