Ike reaches out to Taft after winning GOP nomination 60 years ago today (1952)


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(Friday, July 11, 1952, 1:15 p.m. CDT) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called on Sen. Robert A. Taft today shortly after his triumph over the senator for the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago in an apparent effort to smooth over the bitterness of the convention contest. The two emerged at 1:15 p.m. CDT, both smiling broadly as they posed together before television cameras.