REPLAY: Hour of Decision: Eisenhower 2: Robert Taft, the Gatekeeper’s First Target

HOST: Lew Moore

In this second episode of Lew’s series on President Dwight David Eisenhower he discusses the reason the Establishment needed Ike to be a gatekeeper to protect their gains for the Fabian project (big government at home, world government overseas). That reason was the arrival of Ohio Senator Robert Taft (with a solid America First platform) as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 1952.

Eisenhower had been a Democrat and very loyal political soldier of FDR, and there was an attempt to draft him for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1948. But by 1952 the public is being told by corporate media that “Ike” was a good Republican, while Eastern establishment types positioned Eisenhower to defeat Taft for the GOP nomination.

Taft had the delegates to win at the 1952 convention, but the media and Ike’s campaign portrayed him as a crooked backroom player who had delegates that should be removed from the voting. It was also repeated over and over and over again that Taft could not win the general election. Considering Taft’s support among union members in the bell weather state of Ohio, that was a dubious claim at best.

A Time magazine insert describing Taft as a thief “stealing” delegates was passed out to everyone on the convention floor. Amid fistfights delegates higher up “the food chain” turned on Taft and helped remove some of his delegates. This gave Eisenhower a very dirty victory and making him the GOP nominee.

America’s Secret Establishment, by Anthony Sutton. A takedown of Skull and Bones, which three generations of Tafts belonged to

Mr. Republican, by James T. Paterson. Establishment treatment of Taft

Eisenhower Was A Democrat by Robert Ferrell
A Choice Not An Echo by Phyllis Schafly. History of Establishment manipulation of GOP nomination process.