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| 1952 presidential election | |
  Nominees Eisenhower and Nixon | |
| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Date(s) | July 7–11, 1952 |
| City | Chicago, Illinois |
| Venue | International Amphitheatre |
| Candidates | |
| Presidential nominee | Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York |
| Vice presidential nominee | Richard M. Nixon of California |
The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 7 to 11, 1952, and nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike", for president and Richard M. Nixon of California for vice president.
The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, supported the development of nuclear weapons as a deterrence strategy, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft–Hartley Act, opposed "discrimination against race, religion or national origin", supported "Federal action toward the elimination of lynching", and pledged to bring an end to communist subversion in the United States.[1]
- ^ "Republican Party Platform of 1952". Political Party Platforms: Parties Receiving Electoral Votes: 1840–2012. The American Presidency Project. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
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