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...Chicago Ikemen who have never taken the Tribune's anti-Eisenhower outbursts seriously are quick to accuse Knight of using criticism of the President to sell newspapers. Retorts Knight: "I don't sit down and say something because I think it is good for my newspapers. I don't fail to say something because I think it would be bad for my newspapers." Knight's rightward march is essentially the reaction of a cost-conscious businessman. But the hundreds of letters from worried readers that are pouring into his newspapers' and congressional offices each week...
James Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. At a dinner in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel a couple of weekends ago, about ten of the Ikemen specifically decided: 1) to encourage pro-Eisenhower candidates to run next year for congressional and local offices across the U.S., 2) to reactivate the Citizens for Eisenhower movement of 1952. They do not intend to put any pressure on the President to run, but they do see the need for what one of them calls "a movement of rededication" to Eisenhower...
...Ikemen talk, confidently, as if the President will surely decide to run once he gets favorable word from the doctors. They argue that the strains of the presidency would not be so dangerous as the frustration of watching from Gettysburg while an Adlai Stevenson or an Estes Kefauver or an Averell Harriman dismantles the achievements of the Eisenhower Administration. One of the Ikemen said this week: "I'm confident he'll run again-if the doctors say O.K. I'm absolutely confident." In any event, the Ikemen feel they must get the bandwagon rolling through the period...
...Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt there in 1920. For years, some Republican leaders (notably Massachusetts' Joe Martin) had promised that the G.O.P. would meet in the west, but never before had it ventured west of Kansas City. For the new kind of Republicanism being fostered by Dwight Eisenhower, Ikemen thought, a new convention site was highly appropriate...