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...POSTMASTER GENERAL: 1) G.O.P. National Chairman Arthur Summerfield; 2) Senator Fred A. Seaton, Hastings (Neb.) newspaper publisher and one of Eisenhower's campaign advisers; 3) Herbert Brownell, New York lawyer who is Dewey's able political strategist...
...personal campaign adviser is New Hampshire's Governor Sherman ("The Rock") Adams, a self-effacing, efficient liberal Republican who was Ike's floor manager at Chicago. He has been somewhat hampered by his lack of clearly defined authority. Also among the top advisers: Senator Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Herbert Brownell, Tom Dewey's Nebraska-born lieutenant, Congressman Walter Judd and Harold Stassen...
...intended "to talk with him at the earliest time we can reach each other by telephone." But some of Ike's strategists, still in high panic, insisted that Nixon should be brought into Ike's presence for a personal accounting. Nebraska's Senator Fred Seaton, a close friend of both Eisenhower and Nixon, dropped off the Ike train at Auburn, Neb. to put through a telephone call to Nixon to ask what Nixon proposed to do. Should he break his campaign tour in the West and come to Ike with an explanation...
Nixon, talking from his train at Chico, Calif., objected strongly to any such pilgrimage of humiliation. He had a counterproposal: he would dictate a statement and Ike could issue it for him. Seaton flew back to join the Eisenhower staff in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. After an hour's conference, Ike's advisers decided that Ike should preface his forthcoming evening speech-on corruption in government-with Dick Nixon's formal statement...
...enemy camp, the activity was almost as furious. Eisenhower clubs had been organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...