Monday, Mar. 17, 1952

Who's for Whom

Charles Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison and former Secretary of the Navy and Democratic governor of New Jersey, last week named his choice for President. Said he: "As an independent, and I truly mean an independent--not just an independent Democrat, not just an independent Republican, but as an independent independent--I urge everyone to support Fighting Bob Taft."

Other endorsements of the week:

P: Nevada's Pat McCarran, a cool-to-Truman Democrat, chairman of the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, announced that he favors the Southern Democrats' candidate, Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, "because first of all he has shown a determination to clean Communists and subversives and fellow travelers out of the Federal Government."

P: Henry L. Thompson Jr., a member of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee, split away from the committee's support of Taft, announced that he would head a new Toledo Eisenhower-for-President organization, because he thinks Ike would be a winner.

P: New York's Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. said he is for Harry Truman "100%."

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