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Whistle-stopping at Havre, Mont., the President charged that Ike had been slow to recognize the Soviet threat after World War II. "His advice," said Truman, "carried great weight and it therefore did a great deal of harm." (New York's Governor Tom Dewey countered this charge in a television show-see below...
Virginia. This seems to be the Southern state in which Stevenson is in greatest peril. In 1948, Virginia voted 41.4% Republican, plus 10.4% Dixiecrat. Eisenhower is far more popular than Dewey was in 1948, but Stevenson is more popular than Truman was. Leaders of the Byrd machine, one of the most effective (and cleanest) in the U.S., have agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes...
...month ago Tom Dewey promised that when the campaign got rolling he'd work at it 18 hours a day. Up to last week he remained relatively quiet. Then, in two highly effective TV appearances, Dewey got to work. His objective: to win that almost indispensable state, New York, for the Republicans...
...post-convention situation saw Eisenhower with no clear mandate as Stevenson enjoyed. Despite the refreshing surge of political amateurism which ultimately gave him the nomination, he faced a real job of reconciling an embittered Old Guard in order to get out a vote which Dewey lost in 1948. Different situations confronted the candidates, and neither planned a campaign he expected to lose. (Not even Stevenson...
Nothing that voting in the Truman-Dewey election was unusually low, Key said that "this year's increase brings the figures up closer to a normal registration...