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...Gabrielson picked up a letter from Bob Taft. Now that he had fully analyzed the Texas situation, said Taft, he proposed a compromise: the delegation should be split 22 for Taft, 16 for Ike. The Eisenhower delegation from Texas stood 33 for Ike, five for Taft; the Taft delegation was divided 30 for Taft, four for Ike, four leaning to MacArthur. Said Taft: "While I will suffer a delegate loss in making this proposal, I am doing so because I think it is so generous that its equity cannot be questioned...
...Deal. After reading Taft's letter, Gabrielson recessed the hearing and urged the Taft Texans, headed by National Committeeman Henry Zweifel, and the Texans for Ike, headed by Houston Oilman Jack Porter, to get together. But the Eisenhower men refused to deal...
Early in the week, as the Taft steamrollers picked up speed, 23 of the nation's 25 Republican governors, in Houston for the annual Governors' Conference, joined in signing a telegram to Republican National Committee Chairman Guy Gabrielson. They asked him to abandon the basic Taft convention tactic: the rule that once pro-Taft delegates from contested states are seated by the Taft-dominated national committee and credentials committee, they must be allowed to participate in any full convention vote on the seating of other contested delegations. Said the governors: "We believe that if contested delegations are permitted...
Next day, John Fine of Pennsylvania and Maryland's Theodore R. McKeldin, the only Republican governors who did not attend the conference, announced that they were in full agreement. Undismayed by this unanimous appeal from the Republicans who know how to get elected to executive office, both Gabrielson and Taft stuck to their guns. A reporter reminded Taft that the problem of voting by contested delegates was considered a moral issue by Utah's J. Bracken Lee, one of the Ohio Senator's three lonely supporters among Republican governors. Taft's reply was typical...
...convention hall itself seemed a touch less garish than usual. The gay red, white & blue was balanced by quiet greys and blues (which show up more sharply on TV). The face of Abraham Lincoln looked down earnestly on the delegates. An hour behind schedule, pudgy National Chairman Guy Gabrielson advanced to the rostrum, which jutted, like the bridge of an ocean liner, above the floor. "O.K., boys," he said, and banged the gavel...