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After Ike's intestinal operation, Harold Stassen had some second mental rum blings, ordered his private popularity poll of vice-presidential candidates. Armed with the poll's statistics, Stassen told President Eisenhower of his decision to support Herter. In a 15-minute confer ence Stassen got neither a yes nor a no from Ike, in keeping with Eisenhower's view that the Vice President should be nominated at the convention, not in the White House. Both before and after his conversation with Ike, Stassen talked by telephone to Herter. Stassen was neither encouraged nor rebuffed; high-minded...
With President Eisenhower away in Panama, Harold Stassen called a news conference and, in gentle tones, read a prepared statement. He had, said Harold, received the results of private polls that showed Nixon running last to Herter's first among Republican vice-presidential possibilities (one of the others listed in the polling was Harold Stassen). The polls indicated that Nixon's name on the ticket would cost Ike about 6% of the vote this fall, said Stassen. He stoutly maintained that he was acting only as a private citizen, not in his capacity as the President...
...reaction to Stassen's announcement was intense: 20 Republican Congressmen signed a demand for his resignation...
White House aide; later, 180 of the 202 G.O.P. Representatives pledged their support to Nixon. In Panama Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty snapped that Stassen could not have made his statement as "a member of the President's official family." Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall said flatly: "My own prediction is that the ticket will again be Eisenhower and Nixon...
Undying Loyalty. Harold Stassen had been a long time deciding what was "for the good of America and for the cause of peace." Shortly after President Eisenhower's heart attack last year-perhaps too shortly, considering the niceties-he saw to it that the word got to the Vice President that Harold Stassen would be a 100% Nixon-for-President man in 1956, got no answer at all. Again, after Ike announced that he would be available for renomination, Stassen sent Nixon his as surances of undying loyalty...