Video: Dirksen speech July 9, 1952

(Wednesday, July 9, 1952) — Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York incurred yelling disapproval tonight at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

What amounted to a mass catcall at Dewey, the party’s (losing) 1944 and 1948 presidential nominee who is now backing Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, came in the course of a fighting speech in which Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois pleaded for the seating in the convention of a Georgia delegation supporting Sen. Robert A. Taft.

In the end, Eisenhower’s delegation from Georgia would be seated (click here for full video of the floor fight).