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When Televiewer Bob Taft saw 1948's Brown trundling up to the rostrum to take over, he gasped. Taftmen in the convention hall were confused by Bricker's motion and Brown's switched parliamentary maneuver. Thereafter occurred the dramatic two-hour debate on the merits of the whole rule proposal (TIME, July 14); the chair put Brown's amendment to a vote. The Taft side lost it by a thumping 110-vote margin...
From there on, the Taftmen's floor tactics improved little. They fought the Georgia case, although the Monday vote should have convinced them they had little chance of winning it. They gave up on Louisiana after they had passed the point where the convention would give them any credit for the concession...
Daunted by the outraged uproar which followed their decision to ban TV from national committee hearings, Taftmen did not make the same mistake again. When members of the credentials committee assembled in the rococo Gold Room of Chicago's Congress Hotel on the second day of the convention, they were agreed to work under the eye of the television camera. Through that eye during the next two days millions of Americans saw political infighting in its most instructive form, a moral issue interwoven with highly technical politics...
...party's candidate for attorney general. Eastvold asserted that the convention was its own supreme court in party matters, and both the 1944 and 1948 Republican Conventions had recognized Georgia delegations led by W. Roscoe Tucker, who now headed the pro-Eisenhower group. Nevertheless, the Taftmen, by a vote of 30 to 21, recommended that the pro-Taft faction be seated at the convention...
Evidence & Audience. The fight put up in the committee by Eastvold and his col leagues was a warning to the Taftmen of what was to come on the convention floor. On the next case - Louisiana's 13 dele gates- the Eisenhower group put up an other strong argument. Backed up by an impressive array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court...