Word: deweyism
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...miles, making 350 speeches, shouting out some 560,000 words. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts like a last gasp, were...
...said of him that he would respond sensibly to Tom Dewey's lofty speeches. Apparently he had been just as bored as he had looked, and not a little annoyed by Dewey's calm assumption that the result was in the bag. It was said of 'him that he only went in droves to hear Harry Truman because Harry Truman put on a 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...
...barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...decline of conservative power does not date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
...large part of the Democratic Old Guard left Truman this summer, and he was able to win without them--and without the Wallace vote, which cost him New York. The President even made heavy inroads into the traditionally-conservative Republican Mid-West. Old Guardism failed to produce substantially for Dewey and it failed to produce substantially against the Democrats. This failure strongly indicates not only that the future of Old Guardism is bleak, but that an intelligent conservatism must jettison it to survive as a decisive political force in this country...