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Taft-lke Unity. Eisenhower made serious efforts to bring the Taftmen firmly into the campaign. To Denver came Senators Hugh Butler of Nebraska and Everett Dirksen of Illinois, both strong Taft backers. Both left announcing complete unity. At Columbus, Vice Presidential Nominee Dick Nixon spoke to the Ohio State Republican convention, composed mostly of Taftmen, who cheered him when he denounced Stevenson as "a captive candidate . . . Harry Truman's candidate...
...called the leader of the Eisenhower forces, Massachusetts Congressman John Heselton, into a nearby kitchen. Huddling under a wall sign which read "Keep It Clean," Brown offered a two-part deal: 1) the Taftmen would vote in favor of Ike's Louisiana delegation if 2) the Ike-men would accept Senator Taft's 22-16 split of the Texas delegation...
...Taftmen then threw their creaking steamroller into high for the last time. By a vote of 27 to 24, the committee recommended seating of a Texas delegation split 22 for Taft...
Before another humiliating roll-call defeat could be inflicted on them, Taftmen threw in the towel, proposed that the convention unanimously seat the Eisenhower Texas delegation. With that vote, all hope of regaining the offensive went out of the Taft forces, although they still held together with a tenacity and defensive loyalty almost unparalleled in beaten groups at U.S. national conventions...
...television at times found itself an active participant in the convention drama. By demanding the right to cover the Credentials Committee session, TV aligned itself with the Eisenhower "fair play" forces; before the committeemen yielded to TV's demands, 10,000 listeners fired in angry telegrams protesting the Taftmen's closed-door rule...