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Allen's Touch. In 1944 Allen attended the Democratic Convention and was one of a handful of backroom movers and shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that...
Next day in the Senate, Merzagora coldly pointed out that this was the third Italian government in a row that had been destroyed without any consultation with Parliament. If Italy's party bosses continued to make and unmake governments in cozy backroom deals, said Merzagora, "we might as well turn Parliament into a restricted executive committee to save time and money...
Indiana primary (May 3, 34 delegate votes, bound on the first ballot only), then set out on a highly successful round of handshaking, speechmaking and backroom planning...
...their campaign money-into cold storage, and wait too. "His followers woo him," says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers see hope and unspoken promise...
...backroom experts also forgot that Khrushchev had no urge to enhance Macmillan's prestige with the British electorate; to the Russians, Britain's Socialists, with their distrust of the U.S. and their more experimental approach to the cold war, have more appeal than the Tories. Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position...