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...nomination of Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948, playing a key-part in the bitter intra-party was between Eastern and Midwestern Republicans. In 1952, he sat in a little room in Chicago's Hilton hotel and directed the "Fair Play" offensive, which crushed the candidacy of Senator Taft...
...Sherman Adams and Cabot Lodge sent the hearings careering off in new directions. One path led toward the President, the other toward Cabot Lodge, a favorite quarry for both Democrats and anti-Eisenhower Republicans, who still resent Lodge's management of Eisenhower's pre-convention campaign against Taft...
...column Sokolsky supports the far right wing of the Republican Party. He wanted either Taft or MacArthur to get the presidential nomination, and has been a frequent critic of the Eisenhower Administration. He is also one of McCarthy's stoutest journalistic defenders. But in his columns on McCarthy and the Army, Columnist Sokolsky has never reported on the part of the story he knows best: his own role in the battle...
...Taft's relationship with the Old Guard, White says this: he was in it but not of it; he knew his colleagues were men of smaller mind and narrower interest than he, but he tolerated them because he was a party man first and they were 100 percent Republican. Taft hated Democrats; but he did not equate them with traitors. He condemned the Yalta agreement, but supported the nomination of Charles Bohlen, a "man of Yalta," for Ambassador to Russia...
...short, Taft was a big enough man to prevent the Old Guard from passing the limits of responsible partisan competition. But his death removed this check, and allowed the Jenners and McCarthys of the Old Guard to plow on unrestrained. It is they who must be understood, to be better combatted. The Taft Story tells much about their dead leader. White could now make an even better contribution to understanding American politics if he could use his background in Taft and Congress to explain the more difficult, and currently more important story, of the people Taft...