If the Taft tacticians had been brilliant at Chicago, they might have wormed their way out of the corner in which they had been placed by their own pre-convention strategy and the Brownell-Lodge counterstrategy. The Taft tacticians were anything but brilliant.
Wrong Time & Issue. Before the convention was two hours old, the Taft managers let themselves be maneuvered into the position of testing their strength at the wrong time and on the wrong issue. They were not sure whether they had the votes to win that first test. They did not even carry...
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