Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good show. But politics is a show. Harry Truman, with his mistakes and his impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue. He had promised and threatened almost everything. Labor, while making little noise in the campaign, had taken to heart Harry Truman's promise to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, and had delivered at the polls. Harry Truman had promised the farmers full economic support. And the farmers, reversing the tradition that they vote Republican when they are prosperous, had voted...
Swing from Right. Obviously the little old voter liked Democrats better than Republicans. Harry Truman had made his campaign on the record of the "worst Congress in history." Whether or not he accepted that indictment completely, the voter was ready to accept it in part. The Republican-controlled 80th Congress represented a kind of conservatism which he decided he was against...
Come what might on Election Day, the President was relaxed. He told the Shriners: "People ask me how I could find the strength to campaign so hard and for so long. That's easy-I'm out of jail when I'm out campaigning...
Lost Landslide. Below, the ballroom was slowly filling with party workers, ready to watch the avalanche bury Harry Truman. Campaign Manager Herb Brownell emerged from his closely guarded headquarters to announce: "It is now apparent tha we will wind up by sweeping two-thirds of the states." Television cameras trained their lenses on the balcony, where the candidate was expected to appear, along around midnight, for a triumphal speech to the faithful...
...tiny handful of prophets had escaped being caught with their pants down. On the Truman campaign train, a few days before the election, Columnist Jay Franklin, now a Truman speech writer, had bet newsmen that Truman would win with at least 278 electoral votes. Jack Kroll, director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, also had declared: "Truman is going to win in spite of what the polls say. The polls [are] cockeyed...