Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da sanannun sanannun, Ives ya goyi bayan Dokar Taft<unk>Hartley a 1947 kuma ya jefa kuri'a don soke takardar veto ta Shugaba Harry S. Truman; daga baya ya rasa goyon baya na dogon lokaci daga kungiyoyin kwadago. Ya yi aiki a matsayin wakili a 1948 Republican National Convention
a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, wanda ya zabi abokinsa da kuma ɗan'uwansa mai sassaucin ra'ayi na New Yorker Thomas E. Dewey. A wannan shekarar ya auri sakatarensa na dogon lokaci, Marion Mead Crain.