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Winfield
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« on: November 20, 2006, 11:48:20 PM »

With Eisenhower out of the running, Robert Taft becomes the GOP nominee, and he crushes the intellectual Stevenson in the election.

By 1952, the nation was looking for a change, and was just asking the Republicans to nominate a credible candidate for President to vote for.  Taft would have been credible indeed, and wins a resounding victory.

President Taft, however, dies a mere six months after his inauguration.  He dies in July of 1953.

Taft had persuaded Governor Thomas Dewey of New York to become the Vice Presidential nominee in 1952.  Dewey reluctantly accepts, having failed himself twice previously to be elected President, in 1944 and in 1948.  Dewey, however, in July of 1953, realizes his lifelong ambition of becoming President of the United States, albeit in a more round about way than what he had planned on.

Dewey, with Senator John Bricker of Ohio as the VP candidate, goes on to win a landslide victory in 1956 over Democrats Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver.

Dewey goes down in history as one of the great Presidents, personally negotiating an end to the Korean War.
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Winfield
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2006, 12:29:05 AM »

VP for Taft in '52?

How about Taft breaks new ground, is far ahead of his time, and picks Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine?

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