Word: krocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campaign. The offer climaxed a long campaign by certain Democrats to capture Ike from the Republicans, Krock went on. One Democratic emissary had gone to Paris within the last five weeks to promise Ike the unanimous endorsement of the Democratic Convention if he would accept. Ike's quoted reply was: "You can't join a party just to run for office. What reason have you to think I have ever been a Democrat...
...Krock had a shocker for the Republicans, too. "Intimates of the general" say that Ike plans to talk with Bob Taft before the convention to see whether they can't reach a middle-of-the-road agreement on their differences. (Biggest difference: aid to Europe.) If they agree, then Ike might support Taft as the nominee...
Whodunit? The whole story gave Washington the political shakes. Harry Truman virtually called Krock a liar. Said Truman: "There's not a word of truth in it-that's my only comment." Snapped a spokesman at Ike's headquarters: "purely fictional." Krock stuck by his guns and identified his source as an "eminent Northern Democrat" who is "thoroughly reliable and informed...
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...