 The avalanche of editorial opinion continued the following day , Sunday , September 21 , but Eisenhower continued to withhold judgment . The general considered asking retired Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts to evaluate the legality of the Fund , but time constraints ruled him out . Eisenhower decided to ask the Los Angeles law firm Gibson , Dunn & Crutcher for a legal opinion , while asking the accounting firm Price Waterhouse to audit the Fund 's records . Nixon , meanwhile , was encouraged by a supportive telegram from his mother and discouraged by one from former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen urging him to resign from the ticket . New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey , a Nixon supporter , called to tell the senator that most Eisenhower aides favored his removal , and that if Nixon made the telecast , he should call for people to write to express their opinions . Dewey added that if the response was not strongly pro @-@ Nixon , the senator should leave the ticket . 
