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...White case seems to us to warrant but one relevant conclusion: that the GOP is trying to save the mid-term elections by screening off material issues and substituting warmed-over reds-in-government. It is all too reminiscent of the 1950 primary in North Carolina where Senator Frank Graham, having won the first primary by 53,000 votes, lost the runoff by 18,000 votes after the countryside had been flooded with handbills and whispers charging Graham with favoring "mingling of the races...
...Samuel Lubell said in The Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach...
...figure so often in contrast to the personal Taft: one argumentative, impatient with slow minds, the other amiable and tolerant; one stiff-seeming and standoffish, the other resonantly singing airs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, devoted to his four sons, playing with his grandchildren, who laughingly called him "the Gop." There had been contrast and sometimes conflict between the two tafts. She had not wanted him to campaign for the presidency in 1952; if he had won, she would have been deprived of much of his company, which she needed so badly in her own trouble...
...attacked the President on two main counts. He accused him of letting GOP opposition slash the defense budget too deeply and of failing to "crack down" on Joe McCarthy...
Schlesinger added that the GOP had made a basic political decision "to avoid alienating McCarthy" in order to use him in next year's elections to increase their strength in the Senate