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President Conant stands fair to be the GOP's dark horse presidential nominee for '52, according to a Gallup poll published in last week's Look. The 58-year-old University head placed fifth in the national survey. The poll assumed that Eisenhower would not accept the nomination...
McGeorge Bundy, recently made an Associate Professor, didn't receive his appointment by researching his way up the academic ladder. Instead he has worked on everything from the GOP Policy Committee to plumbing, and his career has been refreshingly non-academic...
That same year the Republican Party asked Bundy to join the Dewey campaign as foreign policy adviser, and he accepted. Since the opinion polls predicted a sure victory for Dewey, the GOP foreign office became an embryo State Department. Bundy and his fellow counselors fully expected to move their offices to Washington after election day and many foreign diplomats treated them as if they already had. However, they were disillusioned between five PM and five AM on their moving day. Bundy still feels that Dewey could have won with a more energetic campaign; he hopes by 1952 the GOP will...
...immediately after the removal of General MacArthur, the GOP's Congressional leadership switched arguments. Wherry and Martin blasted Truman for injecting politics into military policy; when MacArthur parades drew crowds in the millions, Republicans pushed the General onto their own platform. Taft, who two months before had been afraid of inciting the Russians, now accused Truman of flirting with appeasement. In February the Ohioan had opposed the bombing of Manchuria; now he called for an aggressive war on China. when our Joint Chiefs of Staff backed up Truman, Taft branded the military men as political stooges, although he admitted...
...issues of foreign and domestic policy. Since the Republicans are within two of controlling the upper house of Congress, our foreign programs particularly aid to Europe can now be effectively opposed. The South's twelve-man contribution to the Democratic side of the Senate will join the GOP to try and defeat everything from the Marshall Plan to Point Four. Republicans can, of course, blame any political mistakes the Congress may make on the Democrats who technically control both Houses...