Word: deweyitis
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...Senator and Republican national committeeman since 1940 from Ike's home state of Kansas, made his first move almost three months ago. Then top Republican politicians-governors, state chairmen, national committeemen-met in Tulsa to select a convention time & place. With Pennsylvania Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., who was Dewey's national chairman in 1948, Darby picked about 80 key Republicans and set to work on them, sounding them out on a stop-Taft movement and incidentally talking up Ike. In their conversations, they heard fears that if Taft is elected President, the party will be wholly captured...
Darby was elated. Early this month, he set up an informal Washington headquarters in the office of Kansas' Senator Frank Carlson. Of the 46 Republican Senators, 23 wanted to see him. To each he explained what Dewey and Stassen had committed themselves to. To each he put one question: "If you were a candidate for office next year, whom would you want to head the ticket?" The answer was overwhelmingly...
...among the professionals. For the next month, Darby in Kansas City and Scott in Washington spent hours each day on the long-distance telephone. Scott conferred several times a week with Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff. Every time they talked up Ike, the politicians asked suspiciously about Tom Dewey. Was he trying to use Ike as a stalking horse? Where did Dewey really stand...
...Second Choice. Duff and Darby decided to go to Dewey and get the word. They arranged to meet him, and Darby started East by plane, but was grounded in Chicago. Duff went up to meet Dewey alone. Jim Duff came away convinced that Dewey meant what he had said-literally. He was not a presidential candidate himself and he was for only one candidate: Ike. He had no second choice...
...also been talking to Harold Stassen. Stassen, too, was alarmed by the possibility of Taft as a candidate. About the middle of June, Stassen had a private talk with Tom Dewey. He told Dewey that he was going to back Ike to the hilt. Milton Eisenhower, president of Penn State and, in the professionals' view, an authoritative spokesman for brother Ike, had said that the general would not allow the use of his name in primaries as long as he was in uniform. To get around this ban, Stassen proposed that he enter his own name in crucial primaries...