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...Vice President continued to plead for party unity by calling the kettle a pot. There is disunity in the Republican Party. He acknowledged that some Republicans think Idaho's Senator Henry Dworshak is too conservative. "But what are you going to do? Elect that cowboy (former Democratic Senator Glen Taylor) instead?" He granted that other Republicans believe that New Jersey's Senate Nominee Clifford Case is too liberal, "but we've got to get 48 votes in the Senate. Let's get that into our heads...
...plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight...
...sensitive position. The requirement that a man in this position should relinquish the right to the complete freedom of association that would be his in other circumstances is altogether a reasonable and necessary requirement ... It was particularly essential in the case of Dr. Oppenheimer. It will not do to plead that Dr. Oppenheimer revealed no secrets to the Communists and fellow travelers with whom he chose to associate. What is incompatible with obedience to the laws of security is the associations themselves, however innocent in fact...
...after they have been broken by war and its devastation, they must have help from somewhere. I am willing to give it to them ... I am willing to spend some billions to help our allies and other democracies of the world to be strong and stay strong ... I plead with you ... to do the thing here today to preserve, protect, defend and perpetuate not only this, the greatest democracy that ever existed in all the tide of time, but the other democracies of this unhappy, this distraught and this dangerous world...
John Roosevelt, youngest (38) of the Roosevelt boys and the only Republican among them, turned up in Washington to plead for election of a Republican Congress. John, now a California-New York businessman (cosmetics, packaging), told the Citizens for Eisenhower that he would "go to hell" for Ike. He reported that he had asked his "favorite Democrat"-his mother-how to get Democratic support for G.O.P. congressional candidates this fall. "Her reply," he said, "was hardly suitable for this meeting...