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...Ike, of course, was an international hero, perhaps the most popular man of his day. But Taft had a head start, and he seemed to have the delegates, Eisenhower's backers desperately needed a new and spectacular issue-and they found it in the Taft backers' so-called "steal" of the Texas delegation. The strategy was successful, but it engendered a bitterness rare in the history of any political party. Thus the most memorable sight and sound of the '52 convention was Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, who, in pleading Taft's cause, pointed his finger...
...Differences. In many ways, the candidacies of Bill Scranton and Barry Goldwater are similar to those of Ike and Taft. But there are also decisive differences. It goes without saying that Goldwater is by no means a Taft -but then, neither has Scranton anything like the stature of an Eisenhower. In 1952, Republicans scented certain victory, if only they would pick the right candidate. In 1964, many Republicans despair of victory, no matter who the candidate...
...Ike has been my idol from as far back as I can remember. But his failure to say which candidate he favors, even if it's that nut Goldwater, has made Ike look like a senile old Milquetoast...
...kingmakers of the industrial Northeast cheated Robert A. Taft out of the Republican nomination. The comparison, of course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race, and as yet have attempted nothing of consequence in the 1964 campaign...
Died. William Pettus Hobby, 86, onetime Governor of Texas (1917-1921), longtime chairman of the Houston Post and husband of Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ike's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who gave his state women's suffrage and its first oil conservation laws, then rode off to the newspaper wars, supervising the Post's rise as one of Texas' most informative and widely read newspapers (circ. 224,-649); in Houston...