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...grin when he heard the demonstration start and the galleries begin to chant: "We want Willkie." Then he ducked downstairs for a conference with ex-Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, who reportedly said to him: "If you're still in there pitching on the fourth or fifth ballot I'm with...
...each ballot, more people crowded in. One admirer, who had already begun to celebrate, hovered over Mr. Willkie, repeating: "What a man! What...
...narrow bedlam Mr. Willkie tried to concentrate, wrote down the votes, ballot by ballot, State by State. On the fifth, Kansas came in with all its 18. Someone shouted, "You're in!" A radio crew elbowed through the crowd with a microphone. Policemen appeared, wanted to know who was who. If Mr. Willkie was really going to be the nominee, they had to bodyguard him. Mr. Willkie added up the tally on the fifth...
...Willkie, who had fled from the Convention Hall after the fifth ballot, hurried to the Warwick Hotel, where the Willkies and their son Philip had rooms. At 1 :30 a.m., a big, disheveled man, fighting his way through cheering mobs, arrived, embraced...
...Vice President Republicans needed: a man who favored Federal power, a Westerner, a farmer, a lifelong Republican, a seasoned politician. Quick as a wink, in one ballot, they named Charles Linza McNary of Oregon...