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Show KaJ DRCW PEARSON Senator Tafi's Strategy OEN. ROBERT TAFT, worried about his poor showing in the presidential polls, has been consulting consult-ing with professional opinion researchers. re-searchers. Their advice has been that he become known as a "liberal." "lib-eral." One of Taft's advisers is Dr. Claude E. Robinson of Princeton. N. J., president of Opinion Research corporation, who has collected opinions opin-ions on Taft from all over the country. coun-try. "You are so busy with the practical prac-tical side of government," he told the senator, "that you have lost sight of the fact that people think in terms of goals. You should start letting people know that you are on the side of the Lord." lie suggested that Taft reveal himself in his "true role" as a liberal and stress his stand for the public good; that he start by examining ex-amining the question of what is a liberal and defining it as one who believes in. liberty and higher living liv-ing standards. The strategy then is to show that Taft possesses the practical sense to achieve these goals. Dr. Robinson warned that the pub lic still is fearful that the Republican Repub-lican party represents "reaction and the vested interests." He quoted a typical opinion from his surveys that "no poor man should be a Republican." Re-publican." The best way to combat this, he recommended, is to set up goals and catch the eye of the com mon man. Taft could bid for leadership leader-ship of the true "revolutionary -movement the revolution which started July 4, 177G, advised Dr. Robinson. It was shortly after consulting ' with Dr. Robinson that Taft came out with his political "new look," starting off with a speech, "What Is a Liberal?" CIO Vill Draft Eisenhower TWO POLITICAL PHENOMENA are taking place simultaneously in the nation. President Truman is moving heaven and earth to secure his own renomination, but with his Gallup poll rating continuing to drop. Meanwhile, General Eisenhower Eisen-hower continues to discourage his nomination, but with his popularity continuing to increase. A lot of interesting backstage figures are behind Eisenhower, one of them being CIO President Philip Murray. Murray has sent out word to every CIO stcclwork- crs local suggesting resolutions for a "draft Eisenhower" movement. The stcelworkers convention will I go on record unanimously asking i Eisenhower to run, and a similar movement already is under way in most other CIO unions. i Murray also held an important secret conference in Pittsburgh with Illinois Democratic Eoss Jack Ar-vey. Ar-vey. Arvey has been drafted by Illinois Democrats to run their political po-litical fortunes until after the presidential presi-dential elections, and he agreed with Murray that the Democratic party's hope lay in nominating Eisenhower. Although not talking much, Arvey has been a very busy beaver. He was principally responsible for the violent anti-Truman demonstration at the California Jefferson Day dinner din-ner when Mr. Truman was booed so vigorously that Chairman J. How-ard How-ard McGrath almost quit talking. Also active in the draft-Eisenhower drive is former Roosevelt labor adviser, Anna Rosenberg. Mrs. Rosenberg is a close friend of Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, also of Phil Murray, George Allen, Mrs, Roosevelt, the Rockfel-lers, Rockfel-lers, as well as many of the ex New Dealers. Eisenhower's supporters are ignoring ignor-ing all of the general's protests about his candidacy. They're convinced con-vinced that if a genuine draft movement move-ment develops, he will accept the nomination. Sullivan's Resignation 'RESIGNATION OF GAEL SO. LIVAN from the Democratic n tional committee was - inevitable. Only a few insiders knew it, but Mr. Truman hated him, barred him from the White House. Sullivan always was getting in the President's hair, fighting on Palestine, for labor, against cartels. car-tels. His departure means be thinks the fight on these things Is hopeless. Sullivan worked day and night tor the administration, led the life of a monk socially, studied like a schoolboy school-boy to make government wheels turn more smoothly. He was an FDR favorite, being forced on Mr. Truman by Bob Hanneganr It has never been a secret that' Sullivan was a Justice Douglas man. When named assistant postmaster general, he even insisted that Justice Douglas Doug-las swear him in. When the Ed Pauley grain-speculation investigation started, Mr. Truman called Sullivan to the White House,- asked him if he was in the market. "Mr. President," replied Sullivan, Sulli-van, "you flatter me. I've never had a dime besides my salary since I've been in politics." |