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Massachusetts State Minority Leader Charles Gibbons and State Representative Christopher H. Phillips '43 debated the Eisenhower-Taft presidential question in a joint meeting of the Harvard and Cambridge Republican Clubs.
Phillips represented Eisenhower, and Gibbons, Taft, in a discussion that centered around foreign policy Phillips argued that "no book writing can cover up Taft's voting record," and then listed five "short sighted" opinions of Tafts', ranging from his voting against the Selective Service Act in 1941, to his opposition of the Atlantic Pact Point Four, and Marshall Plan in more recent days.
Gibbons countered "that Eisenhower didn't even have a foreign policy, and that he would lose a great deal of prestige and glamour when he had to take off his uniform and make political stands. Besides not having a platform, Like had never set a policy in his life," he said.
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