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...farm states of the Midwest and beyond reverted to Republican type-almost as though Ezra Taft Benson had never existed. In Kansas and Iowa, Nixon not only won but carried along Republican state candidates to victories over favored Democrats. In the Far West Nixon also did nicely-except in crucial California...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
...union was Communist-led. The Mine & Mill workers were ousted from the old C.I.O. in 1950 for Communist leanings, but Mine & Mill Negotiator James L. Daugherty now denies the charge. Why then had he refused to sign a non-Communist affidavit in 1947 as then required by the Taft-Hartley Law? Because, explained Daugherty, he had been instructed not to by the union he was then representing...
Kennedy said he admitted his error in accusing the Republican Party of passing no progressive legislation this century "I accept the correction" of a Cleveland newspaper which recalled some items President Taft had supported, "but what have they done since then?" More noise...
...Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded...