the front runner of the republican nomination was robert taft, also called mr. republican, and he was well known by the party regulars. however, many party regulars thought that he was too far to the right and they did not like him. so a number of new hampshire people rallied around their governor, sherman adams, and decided to push the candidacy to dwight d. eisenhower. he was serving as the commander of nato at the time and he was not allowed to run and he did not even come to the state. so there was a backdoor effort orchestrated by the likes of henry lodge and sherman adams to get him on the ballot. it worked. he said he was ok with having his name on the ballot. and on the democratic side, president harry truman was planning to run for another term. and he was contested. he had problems in terms of the korean war and other things, and he was contested by a guy from tennessee, who nobody had ever heard about except he headed up the crime commission that got a lot of publicity on television. so the primary breaks ride open -- wide open with taft, eisenhower,

the front-runner for the republican nomination was robert taft, a fairly conservative republican. he was well known by party regulars. many party regulars thought he was too far to the right and didn't like him. a number of new hampshire people rallied around their governor, sherman adams. the decided to push candidacy of dwight d. eisenhower. a backdoor effort amshestrated by lodge and ad to get eisenhower on the ballot. he said, he was ok with having it on the ballot. on the democratic side, president truman was planning to run for another term. he was contested. he had problems in terms of the korean war and other things. consisted -- contested by a senator. he headed up a crime commission that got a lot of television publicity. open,52 primary breaks with eisenhower versus taft. we have lots of artifacts. figure,er was a popular but he did not campaign in get in new hampshire. -- yet in new hampshire. finally, campaign in new hampshire. maybe he shouldn't have. he was not a popular figure. new hampshire came out in force , saying "i like ike." eisenhower won the primary. much

their resources in support of the presidential aspirations of their friend and colleague, senator robert taft of ohio. known as mr. republican, taft led the republicans against truman and believed he earned a shot at the residential press ring. year.hould be his just as important to hoover, taft had been one of the young hoover men who worked with him on relief in belgium from 1914-1919. and the rest of europe after the war. such loyalty deserved his support fo. do we had other ideas and eisenhower was the man who led forces against hitler's eisenhower was at the center of those plans. was dewey and eisenhower on one side and hoover and taft at the other. i can 52 was a time when the two camps focused on the coming campaign. although they were not political opponents, hoover and eisenhower were not allies. they barely communicated during those critical months before the presidential campaign began in earnest. instead of direct to medication, they made comment through surrogates. the republican national convention would be held in july and it was evident to hoover that cap was in trouble. -- t

robert mueller is obviously going to have a broad mandate to look at all kinds of things. the russia scandal is met taftetastasizing for his eyes. this is because he fired james comey as fbi director which we all heard steve bannon say a few days ago even steve bannon said was the greatest mistake in modern political history. that's what this is about, not jeff sessions. drup donald trump continues to show no self-awareness about that. >> hey, paul, a short question and long one. the short one, do you know of any sensible washington lawyers who don't agree with the decision by sessions to recuse himself? >> sessions has to recuse himself because sessions, himself, misled congress about his own dealings with the rushes so there's no way that sessions could objectively lead an investigation about whether the trump campaign colluded with the russians. but it's become obvious that the president does not want an objective investigation about collusion. >> all right. now, let's pick up where michael left off. if you're mueller, what's your reaction to reading this kind of play-by-play, kind of pathetic as it