Despite his moderate reputation , Ives supported the Taft – Hartley Act in 1947 and voted to override President Harry S. Truman 's veto of it ; he subsequently lost his longstanding support from labor unions . He served as a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , which nominated his friend and fellow liberal New Yorker Thomas E. Dewey . That same year he married his longtime secretary , Marion Mead Crain
1948 Republican National Convention
1948 Republican National Convention
Irving Ives