Bohlen was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 74–13. (Thayer, meanwhile, resigned from the State Department under duress.) Eleven Republican senators, in opposing Bohlen, voted against their newly elected and immensely popular president; they also voted against Taft, against Dulles, and against the privilege of the Executive to choose its own envoys. Eisenhower won, but it had cost him a great deal of bad blood with the right wing of his own party and showed that McCarthyism was in no sense diminished simply because the Republicans had taken control of the White House.
