Word: deweyitis
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...huddles with such Republican leaders as New York's Governor Rockefeller. Tom Dewey, Herbert Hoover and Publisher Roy Howard, Nixon aired his problems. One sign of Republican worry was the barrage of advice, some of it flatly contradictory, that poured in on him. Among other things, advice givers urged...
Nineteen forty-eight was the last year the GOP could feel truly happy about. Dewey then won the support of 51 per cent of the undergraduates polled, while Truman got only one-quarter of their ballots...
...Truman & Dewey...
...haven't heard much comment on Thomas E. Dewey's masterful speech at the Republican National Convention...
...from the Farmer. The liberal New York Post was almost inevitably reminded of a quip made by Humorist Goodman Ace: "Public opinion polls reach everyone in America, from the farmer in his field right up to the President of the United States, Thomas E. Dewey." But to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, Gallup's 1960 post-convention poll was downright sinister. The polls, cried Gore, are "almost meaningless and in many instances misleading," but they still have an "entirely unjustified" influence on elections. With that, Gore hinted at an investigation of the pollsters by the Senate Privileges...