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...truths. The Democratic Press found it vague, uninspired and-with its promises of economy plus adequate relief, of peace for business plus war on monopolies, of increased farm exports plus decreased farm imports-as inconsistent as the Republican platform. Impartial observers were impressed by the temperate tone in which Alf Landon attacked New Deal performance, the forthright manner in which he espoused much of the New Deal program.- Citizens who expected a summons to a holy crusade against Franklin Roosevelt and all his works were flatly disappointed...
...moderation if they had previously familiarized themselves with the views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint...
...interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days later he turned up in Topeka as one of the Landon "researchers...
...speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation for a lot more than an ordinary researcher's facts & figures...
...referring to his helpers, but the fact remains that he, no less than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, has been compelled to acknowledge that a Presidential program for the modern U. S. must be the product of many minds. With no other statement in You And I-And Roosevelt can Alf Landon agree more heartily than with Charlie Taft's observation: "The truth is, nothing which concerns this nation of 120,000,000 people can ever be simple again...