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Politicians and pundits who had their binoculars trained on Michigan agreed that there were clear signals of a shift to Eisenhower. While National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield kept his silence, the word drifted through Republican conversations: Summerfield will come out for Ike at the proper moment. If he does, the Michigan delegation-now counted ten for Taft, ten for Ike and 26 uncommitted-might give as many as 40 of its 46 votes to Eisenhower...
MICHIGAN-46. Taft and Ike have 10 each, with Keyman Arthur Summerfield looking for the winner before committing the remaining...
...years Michigan's delegation went to the Republican National Convention pledged to the same man: a favorite son, the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. This year National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield and State Chairman Owen J. ("Pat") Cleary decided to work for a unified, uninstructed delegation. They talked to every one of the 83 county delegations to the state convention. Their argument: uncommitted, Michigan would be in a better position to make deals at Chicago...
Aside from these demonstrations of fervor, the Summerfield-Cleary neutrality plan worked. Fourteen districts gave no hint of their preference. After a compromise slate of ten delegates at large was presented to the convention, the chairman of the "Michigan for Eisenhower" committee moved for its election, the chairman of the "Bob Taft Committee of Michigan" seconded the motion, and the head of the "MacArthur for President Committee" moved that nominations be closed. The delegation as a whole was indeed uninstructed...
...strategy committee's acting chairman, Michigan Auto Dealer Arthur E. Summerfield, who tried to win the 1948 presidential nomination for Senator Vandenberg, said that he personally was clear on what the party's position should be: "I think everyone here will agree with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people...