Word: ikemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crammer. The first lesson was rough-and valuable. Student Eisenhower was immediately caught up in the dramatic fight between Taftmen and Ikemen for the nomination, the most intense fight in either party since the Democratic Donnybrook of 1924. The political backroom deals of Brazos County, Texas, became as familiar to Ike as the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the center of the storm when the leadership of the Republican Party was torn down-since then a new leadership has been constructed around...
...with his good friend, Correspondent Ed Lahey of the Chicago Daily News. Then Lahey filed, from Montreal, a story that Taft would not campaign for Ike unless: 1) Ike promises that certain unnamed Taftmen will be considered for jobs in the new Administration; 2) Ike promises that certain unnamed Ikemen will not be made Secretary of State ("It's a safe bet," wrote Lahey, "that one of them is Governor Dewey"); 3) Ike will not "repudiate" the Taft-Hartley law even by indirection; 4) Ike will conduct his campaign more like what Taft calls an authentic Republican...
...camp found this story hard to believe. Ike has taken the initiative in harmony overtures ever since he rushed over to meet Taft right after the nomination in Chicago. Since then, Taft's responses have always been friendly. Moreover, Ikemen who have visited Taft in Quebec have heard him voice no such conditions. He has promised, they report, to privately "warm up" his friends in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. But he wants to talk at length with Ike before he campaigns-mostly to make certain, as a practical matter, that he and Ike aren't making conflicting speeches...
...strategist suggested that they could raise a point of order because the motion included seven Louisiana delegates, whose cases had been settled by the state committee. In a hasty conference, the Taftmen decided to raise the point, and to let Guy Gabrielson, then presiding, uphold it. Then, if the Ikemen wanted to seat their seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much harder time arguing against the chair than for what they deemed their rights. Said Taft's able...
Wisdom ended his testimony at 3:45 a.m. When the committee convened again after breakfast, several normally pro-Taft members, doubtless mindful of the television audience, seemed ready to vote with Ikemen on the Louisiana issue. Moving swiftly to convert a rout into a display of generosity, Ohio's ponderous Clarence Brown, leader of the committee's Taft forces, offered to do some trading...