Good morning, it's Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Sixty-six years ago today, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower set up shop on the second floor of a hotel in Denver, Colorado. Eisenhower's ultimate destination that summer was Chicago, where he would try and pry the GOP nomination away from presumptive party favorite Robert A. Taft.
It was on this date in 1952, in that hotel room, that Ike served notice that although he was a newbie to elective politics, he knew instinctively how to play hardball.
The venue was the Brown Palace Hotel, which opened in 1892 and was named after colorful Coloradan Henry Cordes Brown, a Denver newspaper publisher and local tycoon. I'll have more on the historic significance of this hotel, which I've written about previously, in a moment.
