Word: deweyitis
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Fully aware of New York's highly developed social conscience, Dewey first turned his attack on Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman. The Democrats' man, said Dewey, is "the Jim Crow candidate for Vice President." Sparkman, who had just completed a three-day tour in upstate New York, "brings into this state the worst record of hatred and warfare against minorities of any man who ever walked into this state." Twice, said Dewey going to the record, Alabama's Sparkman voted against anti-lynching bills, and twice he voted against bills to abolish the poll...
...June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes...
...Next, Dewey applied himself to straightening out some statements Harry Truman had made on his whistle-stop tour about Eisenhower. Dewey's main point: Eisenhower did not give the Administration bad advice about Russia in 1945. Actually, at Potsdam that year, Eisenhower 1) protested to Truman that if Germany was divided the results would be "catastrophic," 2) advised Truman not to invite Russia to fight Japan because the U.S. could handle the job itself. As early as 1945, he said, Eisenhower urged the Administration to keep the U.S. militarily strong against the threat of Russia...
...that Eisenhower was responsible for the Berlin blockade in 1948, said Dewey, was "the most shocking exhibition of hypocrisy and downright fraud." Dewey, an accomplished television speaker, had a little show prepared to make his point. He cracked a raw egg into an ash tray. This, he said, symbolized the "mess" the politicians made of the German situation. Then, said Dewey, the politicians ordered Eisenhower: "General, you put that yolk back into...
...Dewey, who rarely misses a point in this kind of argument, forgot one: in Sparkman's Alabama, the Democratic rooster at the top of the ballot bears the printed legend: White Supremacy...