Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When both Taft and Ike agreed that he should draft the plank, Dulles went to work. A week before the convention began, he arrived in Chicago with a 1,000-word document. Last week, after Dulles had shuttled between the opposing camps, he had a plank which both sides approved with comparatively minor reservations. Millikin's resolutions committee edited it (mostly to put in such barbs as "betrayed," "flouted" and "tragic blunders" when referring to the Truman Administration's foreign policy...
Although the national-defense plank was not in his realm, Dulles had a hand in it, too. When he learned that the original draft leaned toward air-power-only policy, which Ike opposed, he suggested that it be rewritten. Result: a plank which called for "the quickest possible development of . . . completely adequate air power and the simultaneous readiness of coordinated air, land and sea forces...
...soft-pedaled some Fair Deal program points, and has told friends that he is not sure whether Harry Truman's support would really be an asset to him (Truman was promptly informed of these remarks). This week Stevenson told reporters that if the Democratic Party attempted to draft him, he would "feel free to accept or reject" such a move. But Truman's annoyance does not mean that he would oppose Stevenson if he decides...
Harry Truman is still talked about by hopeful Democrats as the only chance for the party if Stevenson refuses to run. Although Truman seems genuinely unwilling to run, and fears for his health if he should try to spend another term in the White House, a draft-Truman movement is not impossible. Truman is not talking on this subject, since he does not want to distract the country's attention from the Republicans' internal squabbles. Although generally a President's influence declines sharply once he announces he will not run again, Truman's hold on Democratic...
Died. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 74, New York's Republican Senator (1915-27), who returned to the Capitol as an upstate Congressman (1933-51), in 1940 co-authored (with Nebraska's Democratic Senator Edward Burke) the first peacetime U.S. draft law; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. A colorless public speaker, he was widely respected by both political camps in Washington as an able, intelligent legislator, with a special interest in national defense. His uncompromising opposition to women's suffrage and Prohibition helped unseat him in the Senate, but as an expert on military affairs, he felt that...