The Republican-Democratic Coalition (RDC), also known as the Republican-Democrats, is a coalition of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, which forms one of the two major power blocs in the United States of America against the anti-establishment National Progressive Pact.
History
The Coalition was formed in midst political upheaval inflicted by the formation of the Pact against the mainstream parties. At the end of the Eisenhower presidency in 1956, the Democratic Party didn't support Progressive Vice President Burton Wheeler, they nominated Estes Kefauver instead. Wheeler's split caused the revive of the Progressive Party and shift to the Nationalist Party. The participation of the dozen new parties during the midterms caused a chaos, sabotaging Kefauver's term. The Republican and Democratic party formed this coalition in response to the newly created NPP.
Parties
Members
Republicans
- Thomas E. Dewey - Former President of the United States
- Robert A. Taft - Former 1948 presidential candidate
- Edward Martin - Former 1952 presidential candidate
- Everett M. Dirksen - Former 1956 presidential candidate
- Richard Nixon - Current President of the United States
- William P. Rogers - Secretary of State
- Melvin Laird - Secretary of Defense
- Wallace F. Bennett - Potential 1964 presidential candidate
- Gerald Ford - Potential 1964 vice presidential candidate
- Absalom Robertson - Potential 1964 Secretary of the Treasury candidate
- Clark Clifford - Potential 1964 Secretary of Defense candidate
- Barry Goldwater - Potential 1968 presidential candidate
- Walter Judd - Potential 1968 vice presidential candidate
- Carl Curtis - Potential 1968 Secretary of State candidate
- Donald Regan - Potential 1968 Secretary of the Treasury candidate
- George Romney - Potential 1972 presidential candidate
- Donald Rumsfeld - Potential 1972 vice presidential candidate
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. - Potential 1972 Secretary of State candidate
- George Shultz - Potential 1972 Secretary of the Treasury candidate
- John McCain Jr. - Potential 1972 Secretary of Defense candidate
- Nelson Rockefeller - Leader of the Responsible Republicans
- Bob Dole - Chair of the Republican National Committee
Democrats
- Harry L. Hopkins - Former 1940 presidential candidate
- James A. Farley - Former 1944 presidential candidate
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Former President of the United States
- Estes Kefauver - Former President of the United States
- John F. Kennedy - Vice President of the United States
- John W. McCormack - Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Carl Hayden - President pro tempore of the Senate
- Robert McNamara - Secretary of the Treasury, potential 1964 and 1968 Secretary of Defense candidate
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Potential 1964 presidential candidate
- Robert F. Kennedy - Potential 1964 presidential candidate
- Edmund Muskie - Potential 1964 vice presidential and Secretary of State candidate
- Henry Fowler - Potential 1964 Secretary of the Treasury candidate
- Dean Rusk - Potential 1964 Secretary of State candidate
- Philip Hart - Potential 1968 presidential candidate
- Chep Morrison - Potential 1968 vice presidential candidate
- Harry S. Truman - Potential 1968 Secretary of State candidate
- George Smathers - Potential 1968 Secretary of the Treasury candidate
- Jane Jacobs - Potential 1968 Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare candidate
- Jeane Kirkpatrick - Potential 1972 presidential candidate
- Leonard Woodcock - Potential 1972 vice presidential candidate