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There was a ripple of laughter when Rhode Island's usually glib Senator Theodore Francis Green got his history mixed, gave Colorado's six ballots mistakenly to Roosevelt & Truman instead of to Dewey & Bricker. But with that little mixup over, the scene went on sedately to Wallace's final formal announcement of a fact already known to the entire world. Now at last it was official: Roosevelt & Truman had received 432 electoral votes, Dewey & Bricker...
...attack on the New Deal. From Harold Ickes, whom she dismissed as "that prodigious bureaucrat with the soul of a meat ax and the mind of a commissar," all the way up to the President, she spared no New Dealer. No other Republican orator except Candidates Dewey and Bricker hit the President so hard, so often and before such large crowds. None spoke so sharply...
...Governor Bricker also had friends around him in his chambers in Ohio's capital. Honest John kept shaking hands all around, passed out cigars. But as the night faded so did the merriment. When Dewey's statement came over the radio, Bricker sat staring at the wall, his teeth clamped hard on his pipe. Twenty-five minutes later, he too conceded defeat. When his term as governor expires Jan. 8, friends expect that John Bricker will go into private law practice...
...Assassination." The last seven days spewed forth a spate of name-calling rancor. Sidney Hillman said that a Dewey victory would be a "national catastrophe"; John Bricker charged that Communists now control the Democratic party. The New York Daily News thought it "fair to surmise that [Roosevelt] is even now hoping to have one of his sons succeed him as King of the United States...
Save Dave. John Bricker swung back to Columbus, Ohio, after trekking down side roads in 31 states, 16,000 miles from coast to coast. Harry Truman ended an 8,000-mile, 15-state tour with a blazing blunder in close-fought Massachusetts. He called his fellow Democratic Senator, Massachusetts' massive, paunchy David Ignatius Walsh, an isolationist, adding brightly: "But we have a chance to reform him." Senator Walsh, a longtime anti-New Dealer, reputedly of great influence on the Massachusetts Catholic vote, had devoted exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term...