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...across the nation the rumble of campaigning grew. In Missouri local Democrats thundered the call to arms, whooping it up for Harry Truman, "a distinguished Missourian in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt." In Ohio, senatorial candidate John Bricker returned the Republican challenge with the voice of doom: "Bring on your New Deal, Communistic and subversive groups. If we can't lick them in Ohio, America is lost anyway...
...best candidate. He's got a great name and he's managed to eliminate most of the criticism against him." Eisenhower: "I have a great interest in him." MacArthur: "Too old to be President." Warren: "Too far west-the East can't see past Ohio." Bricker: "Out because he was on a losing ticket in 1944." Stassen and Vandenberg: "They're Truman's candidates...
...candidates: President Truman's popularity had dived deep from a high of 87% soon after V-J day; now only 43 of every 100 polled voters approved of the way he was doing his job. Republicans' percentage preferences for 1948: Dewey 38, Stassen 28, Bricker 9, Vandenberg 7 MlacArthur 6, Taft 4, Eisenhower 2, others...
Abuse, patient Sidney Hillman had learned, was often the measure of his effectiveness. Candidate Bricker's attack was a high point in the softspoken, bespectacled labor leader's strifebound career...
Stumping the country in 1944, John Bricker declared: "Sidney Hillman's convention cared no more for the Democratic party than for the Constitution of the United States. Power and greed to dominate his fellow men are the motives back of his political activity...