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Some of them are willing to concede that, if he could be nominated, Stassen might run a better race than either Tom Dewey or Bob Taft. Among other things, he could, more than any other Republican, be counted on to woo away the votes of citizens who supported F.D.R. but do not like Harry Truman. But he has to be nominated first...
...throw doubt on Stassen's devotion to party responsibility, Old Guardists often try to link him with Wendell Willkie, who became a registered Republican less than a year before he became the party's nominee. The Old Guard remembers with malice that Harold Stassen, the young keynoter of the 1940 convention, decided at the last minute to be Wendell Willkie's floor manager, too, and that he was a driving force in the revolt that gave Willkie the nomination. The rest of that bit of history is that Stassen broke with Willkie after 1940. He gave...
...Gladiators. Among political observers, there is now a growing feeling that the G.O.P. convention at Philadelphia next year will be a real horse race, and that there will be no silver-platter nomination. To this feeling, the rise of Harold Stassen has contributed considerably. Political prognosticators guess that Taft and Dewey will go into the convention more or less neck-&-neck-with between 300 and 400 votes apiece. They are certain that Stassen will have less than 100. Stassen is not the first man who is regularly named as the compromise candidate. The vision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower stamped...
Over the past few months, Stassen has listened to such political shop talk coolly and appraisingly, like a man watching the gunnery calculations before a salvo is fired. His backers insist that G.O.P. bigwigs, camped in Washington, are still underestimating the effectiveness of their candidate's missionary work within the party. He has done his persuasive best to help the campaigns of young G.O.P. candidates. In his months of travel, Stassen has talked to a score of state chairmen and other Republican local officials. When he met men who were backing either Taft or Dewey he did not argue...
...Stassen and his cohorts have a more dynamic basis for their complete confidence in victory. The Man from Minnesota who believes that "if we are right, we will win," proposes to convince the plain U.S. voter, and through him the politician, that he deserves the presidency...