he invites bob taft to bury the hatchet and hopefully not have bob taft bury the hatchet in him. because, there were a lot of conservatives who were hurt at what happened in the convention at the change of the rule, and bob taft did not -- if bob taft did not support eisenhower, eisenhower would have a difficult time of it. the two men finally meet, and i submit this is the last time you will see a moderate and a conservative being nice to each other in the republican party to the present day. before the republican party is rent apart by nixon and rockefeller and goldwater, etc.. this is bipartisanship within a party. there has to be a name for that and if anybody can say what that is i will use it in the book and footnote it and give you credit. there has to be a name for two wings of the party coming together. maybe the word is just, "smart." long before nixon discovered in 1968 that race baiting in the south would bring republican votes to the table and take them away from the democratic party, dwight eisenhower makes the first move. he overrules all of his advisors and campai

bob lafollette is a republican. taft is a republican. the progressive movement is democrats and republicans, not just a bunch of democrats. democrats have very conservative southern democrats who are not progressive in any sense at all. so that recognition of the need to find a way to knit together different political perspectives focused on this fundamental issue is what we have to discover. it is so counterintuitive to us and it's not even clear organizationally, it's possible, i often think that the business model of progressive organizations is inconsistent with the business model of winning because the way we want to talk about this issue is designed to make the other side hate us. so we want to talk about it, how terrible corporations are and how evil it is to have money in the system. those of might be true statements, but if you talk like that, you're certain turn off 40% of americans of what you're talking about. is there an authentic and true way to talk about this that doesn't necessarily turn them off? the parallel that becom