At the Republican nominating convention in 1956, there was a movement, led by Harold Stassen, to dump Vice President Richard Nixon from Dwight Eisenhower's re-election ticket. When Nixon's nomination went to the floor for a vote, it was unamimous except for one delegate from Nebraska, who placed the fictious name "Joe Smith" on the ballot as a protest. After the convention, the campaign of Democrat Adlai Stevenson seized upon this and transformed "Joe Smith" into an anti-Nixon slogan.