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...Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
Sincerely, from the bottom of his compromising heart, Harrison Spangler felt that G.O.P. should not engage in fights, speak bluntly or do anything positive. He had called the Post-War Advisory Council to Mackinac to draft a program. The Council, thought Harrison Spangler, was an expertly hand-picked group. Ob streperous characters, like Wendell Willkie, had not been invited...
Governors' Revolt. But there were others at Mackinac. Particularly, there were 18 of the country's 24 Republican Governors, men who had battled the New Deal in their own states and won, men who felt that they were closer to the U.S. people than the Washington...
...cool, rocky Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, overlooking the strait where Lake Huron joins Lake Michigan, 43 members of the Republican Post-War Advisory Council met this week to chart their course through trickier waters. Their problem : what statement of foreign policy will best suit and serve the people of the Republic and therefore the Party? Whatever should come out of the meeting, it was clear from the start that G.O.P...
...Senator Robert A. Taft: "That was a fool thing to do.") Leaders close to National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler went ahead with preconference plans to draft a policy which would offend no one. Some observers prophesied that this draft would be the only politically feasible result of Mackinac. But those wise in the ways of politcal campaigns guessed that Dewey was flying the popular beam...