The K1C2 formula, which stands for "Korea, Communism, and Corruption", was a campaign platform devised by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the United States Presidential Election of 1952. Even though he was aloof from party politics, he vowed to personally go to Korea if he was elected. This was a defining moment in the return of the Republican Party. Democrats had dominated the presidency since 1933 and this was a return to office for the Republicans that had been a long time coming.
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Korea
After United Nations forces retook "Line Kansas" in May 1951, the Korean War had been stalemated: the dying went on, but little territory changed hands.
Communism
In September 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a GRU cipher clerk who had worked for the Soviet mission in Ottawa, defected, bringing documents which showed that the Manhattan Project had been penetrated. In January 1950, Klaus Fuchs, who had worked with Hans Bethe and John von Neumann while at the Manhattan Project, confessed that he had spied for Stalin. Gouzenko's defection "awakened the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage."
Corruption
Harry S Truman had asked for J. Howard McGrath's resignation after McGrath, who had been serving as Truman's Attorney General from August 1945 to April 1952, refused to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation of corruption. Major General Harry H. Vaughan, Military Aide to the President, provided access to the White House to those who had given him costly gifts.