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...Humble Thank You." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, a man not given to careless superlatives, called the Minnesota vote "qualitatively the most spontaneous outburst in history of political preference in this country."† Mrs. Alma Thompson, who led 79 other elderly women from a Minneapolis home for the aged to the polls to write in for Ike, explained what happened: "We were just waiting for the chance to vote for General Eisenhower, because he's a born leader, and leadership is what the country needs...
Some suspected that the description might fit Harry Truman, in spite of all the denials. Truman admires and trusts Krock, and might conceivably be trying-out the back door-to persuade his party to drop the Fair Deal in exchange for a candidate who could win and who could heal the split with the Southern Democrats. Next-ranking suspect was Democratic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who dined with Krock at Washington's Carlton Hotel just before he went across the street to visit Ike at the Statler. Baruch categorically denied...
Gentleman Amateur. Taft supporters were exultant at Krock's hint that Ike might back their man, declared that Taft and Eisenhower were actually close on foreign policy and Ike would wind up "in Taft's corner." On the Democratic side, word got around Washington that Harry Truman was saying privately that Ike was a real gentleman and a great man-but the President hoped Ike wouldn't run because he is an amateur politician and look what happened to Amateurs Herbert Hoover and Henry Wallace...
...President Republicans, with most at stake, went so far as to suggest that Krock had fallen into a Taft ambush. They put their faith in Ike's words at his final press conference. "If I have friends that have been my friends so long they believe they know how I would act and react under given situations," said Ike, "that's their own business, and I have never attempted to interfere with any man exercising his own privileges as an American citizen." He strongly implied that he would never announce his own politics or his intentions as long...
...week's end, the gale of speculation set up by Ike's visit and Krock's column was still blowing. It was a good thing that Krock, in advance, had warned the American people to brace themselves...