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Ike to Direct Own Drive at Chicago GOP Convention
Eisenhower reportedly plans to go to Chicago to direct his campaign at the July GOP nominating convention. Taft aides dispute the shift, and a pre-convention delegate tally shows Taft leading Eisenhower 483 to 405 with 189 undecided. The race features shifting state support and debates over campaign strategy and foreign policy plans.
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Ike
Chicago
Associated Press
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Sen
Robert Taft
Eisenhower
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Denver
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David Ingalls
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Pennsylvania
CBS
Long Beach
Denver Coliseum
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Gen
Ohio
George Gallup
Gallup
Sen. Lodge
New Mexico
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Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Oscar Tl
Ewing
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Richard Russell
Georgia
Averell Harriman
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Stevenson Bald
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Kefauver
New Orleans
Truman
Supreme Court
United States
Hugh White
National Party
National Democratic
White
Louisiana
South Carolina
Alabama
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Dulles
Millikin
Iwork
John Foster Dulles
Platform