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Republicans, shot while napping, clutched hands to pain-stricken breasts. Cried New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "[The President] dangled before the eyes of the soldiers a gift of their own tax money. . . ." Cried Pennsylvania's Congressman J. William Ditter: "[The President's speech] degenerated into the official opening of the fourth term campaign...
This plain, effective platform had not been drawn up overnight. It dated from last July when mastiff-faced Representative J. William Ditter of Ambler, Pa., chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee decided that the G.O.P. Congressmen needed a solid platform to campaign...
...raise farm price ceilings under pressure of farmers' vested interests. For the inflationary amendment the Republicans plumped 99 to 53, helped a minority of Democrats appease the farm lobby. Sensing that the future of the Republican Party if not of Congress itself was at stake, one member of Ditter's brain trust said bluntly: "By God, we are caught on that one. There is just no backing out of it. I hope we do better on the other points in the future or we've wasted a hell of a lot of time...
...Chairman Ditter had cause for worry. His fine platform which boosted the improving chances of his party could boomerang if the party failed to live...
...They had not wanted Willkie in the beginning. But for nine weeks they had tried to show him loyalty, proffer their service and support, make suggestions, consult. Some of them had been waved in & out of Colorado Springs for a smile, a handshake, a drink. Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around the Hatch Act limit...