ABSTRACT
Cyrus Sulzberger recorded hearing that “Winthrop Aldrich is going around telling people that if Dwight D. Eisenhower wins, he thinks he will have to accept a job in Washington to ‘keep Ike on the beam.’” The New Yorker, who had seen a lot of the General since Ike had arrived at Columbia—including at the Governor’s Pawling estate—was attempting to exploit the popular notion that, in Eisenhower, the GOP had a sure winner. Increasingly, businessmen joined the crusade. Roy Howard, the publisher of the Kansas City Star and a good friend of the Eisenhower family, announced that the General “is a Kansas Republican like his forbears” and would accept a genuine draft for the Presidency if he felt that his European job could be left in good hands. Anderson, whose advice Eisenhower had sought on Federal Reserve Bank policy applicable to Europe.
