Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Duk da sanannun sanannun, Ives ya goyi bayan Dokar Taft <unk> Hartley a 1947 kuma ya jefa kuri'a don soke takaddamar Shugaba Harry S. Truman; daga baya ya rasa goyon baya na tsawon lokaci daga kungiyoyin kwadago. Ya yi aiki a matsayin wakili ga
1948 Republican National Convention a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, wanda ya zabi abokinsa da kuma ɗan'uwansa na New Yorker Thomas E. Dewey. A wannan shekarar ya auri sakatarensa na dogon lokaci, Marion Mead Crain.