Halleck noted that a highlight of his career came at the 1940 Republican National Convention , when he nominated another person from Indiana , Wendell Willkie . Noting the mixed reception he got , Halleck said , " I got more brickbats and more bouquets over that speech than any other I 've ever made . " In 1944 , even before Thomas Dewey was named as the Republican presidential nominee , Halleck , as the new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee , addressed a party gathering in Chicago . He rejected the Democrat " do n't - change-horses-while-crossing-the-stream " mantra and declared that a Republican president would retain George C. Marshall , Dwight Eisenhower , Douglas MacArthur , and William F. Halsey in their military positions . He attacked what he called the New Deal " snooping into our ice boxes , " a reference to the Office of Price Administration and rationing . Halleck said that Americans should " live again as God meant us to live and not as some bureaucrat in Washington ... would like us to live . " According to Halleck , he was rumored to be Thomas Dewey 's vice-presidential nominee in Dewey 's second general election campaign in 1948 if Halleck guaranteed the support of the Indiana delegation at the 1948 Republican National Convention . In the end , Dewey selected the governor of California , Earl Warren . The Dewey-Warren ticket surprisingly narrowly lost that November , to the Democratic Truman-Barkley ticket
1948 Republican National Convention
1948 Republican National Convention
Charles A. Halleck