If Senator Nixon had not deviously deserted him for Eisenhower, or if Robert Taft had deadlocked the convention, Warren might have won the nomination. In 1952, Warren wanted the presidential nomination. In 1948, Warren ran as Dewey's running mate against President Harry S. Dewey's Republican vice presidential running mate. In 1944, Warren declined to be New York Governor Thomas E. " -John Gunther, 1947, in Inside USA, about California's GovernorĮnormously popular, he was California's only three-term (1942-1953) scandal-free governor. no more a statesman in the European sense than Typhoid Mary is Einstein. "Earl Warren.will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke he has the limitations of all Americans of his type with little intellectual background, little genuine depth or coherent political philosophy a man who has probably never bothered with an abstract thought twice in this life. From "Earl Warren: The Judge Who Changed America," Jack Harrison Pollack, Prentice-Hall, 1979:
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