1952 Republican Party presidential primaries

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From March 11 to June 3, 1952, delegates were elected to the 1952 Republican National Convention. The fight for the 1952 Republican nomination was largely between popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower (who succeeded Thomas E. Dewey as the candidate of the party's liberal eastern establishment) and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the conservative wing. Foreign policy during the Cold War was a major point of contention, with Eisenhower taking an interventionist stance and Taft favoring greater caution and avoidance of foreign alliances. Eisenhower tended to accept many of the social welfare aspects of the New Deal, to which Taft was adamantly opposed. Two other major candidates for the nomination, though never reaching the point of seriously challenging Eisenhower or Taft, were Governor of California and Dewey's 1948 running mate Earl Warren, and former Governor of Minnesota Harold Stassen, who had contended for the nomination in 1948 as well. Taft, who was 62 when the...

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