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Nixon had hardly begun serving in the Senate before the Republican leadership started fighting over whether the 1952 presidential nomination should go to conservative Senator Robert Taft or to the immensely popular General Dwight Eisenhower. The convention was in danger of deadlocking, in which case it might turn to California Governor Earl Warren. That was certainly Warren's plan, and all the California delegates, including Nixon, were pledged to back him. In some complicated maneuvering, though, the Eisenhower forces put forward a resolution that would give them a number of disputed Southern delegations. Nixon, who had already been sounded...
...Dwight D. Robson, Roosevelt's assistantpress secretary, said the poll results are notindicative of the candidate's success...
...would start all over in the spring. Hoping on Clemens and Dwight Evans and Jim Rice and Rich Gedman--Okay, not Gedman. Fall would then fall again...
...also on George Bush's list of potential nominees. Though Cabranes has spoken sympathetically about the concerns of women and gays, Clinton would have to be thoroughly convinced that the judge is not a closet conservative in order to avoid repeating, in mirror image, the famous mistake of Dwight Eisenhower. The Republican President decided it would help him win the 1956 election if he gave a court seat to an Irish Catholic: William Brennan, who turned out to be one of the century's most effective court liberals...
...front page caption in Yesterday's newspaper misidentified the person pictured. The picture was of Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins...