A Delegate’s Dissent at a Boring Convention

The Republican Convention of 1956, unlike the one going on this week, in Cleveland, was so predictable, and so tiresome, that when the Vice-Presidential nomination was nigh and a roll call of the states began, the Convention’s chairman asked the delegates to cut it short—in other words, Arizona should stop saying things like “the beautiful Grand Canyon state,” which only dragged out the proceedings. That Convention, held in late August at the Cow Palace, in San Francisco, was as “rigged” as it gets. The popular incumbent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been re-nominated without opposition, and the same was supposed to happen with Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, even though Eisenhower had tried, ineffectually, to drop him from the ticket.

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 18th