Dwight Eisenhower clinches the presidential nomination at the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago

Title "Paramount News presents: Convention Climax" superimposed on a carved elephant / Several thousand delegates in a chaotic scene with banners, state names, streamers, and posters / "I like Ike, Mr. America" on a poster of the US with an ebullient man jumping up and down / Several shots of the jumble of campaign paraphernalia superimposed on an image of Dwight Eisenhower with his arms upraised / The elephant (Republican Party symbol) with "V E Day at Chicago" and "Victory for Eisenhower" / Two uniformed men watching the jam-packed convention floor far below / Delegates of MO, IL, and AL on the floor with several flashbulbs popping / New York's delegation, with Gov. Thomas Dewey waving to the crowd, "New York has four votes for Sen Taft and ninety-two votes for General Eisenhower" / Pan of the floor / Wipe to Eisenhower watching a television with a rabbit-ears antenna / The delegates on the floor, Eisenhower with four 595 votes nine short of the 92 to clinch the nomination / A number of delegates want to switch their votes; "Minnesota wishes to change its vote to Eisenhower" as the crowd cheers / A man holds an electric sign, "Ike" / A man in a boater hat with Ike 'tickets', brushes them away and looks through the viewfinder of a movie camera / Several shots of the state signs; Sen Henry Cabot Lodge makes the 'V' sign; at the rostrum, convention Chairman Joseph Martin announces, "845 votes for Eisenhower" / Eisenhower with wife Mamie