1938 New York Republican Primary event
also: Republican primary, the month-long primary campaign
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Allen Dulles briefly threw himself into the political arena in August of 1938 when he declared himself a candidate in the Republican primary in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Like Foster, who later ran a similarly ill-fated campaign for U.S. …
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imbued with a sense of public service, but in their minds, democracy was something to be saved from the demos. Democracy works only if so-called intelligent people make it work, Allen said. You can't sit back and let democracy run itself. D…
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He volunteered for charities. But there was no passion in Dulles' campaign. His speeches were stilted and his debate for performance was lawyerly. The month-long primary campaign pitted Dulles against the incumbent, a conservative Democrat …
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He was actually considered a Republican presidential favorite in 1948, but Dewey beat him out. When Dewey and he were running for the Republican primary, that was the first presidential debate ever recorded for the public. And that entire d…