Word: deweyitis
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...Every Perch. Washington, which months ago had abandoned Harry Truman to the Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey (at Albany) : "I was quite surprised by the very low vote. It looks as though two or three million Republicans stayed home, out of overconfidence. That one fact stands out from the returns...
...Senator George D. Aiken: "The Old Guard is a self-perpetuating board of trustees who would rather see the party go down to defeat than give up control of the machinery ... I had hoped that Dewey would get in and be able to renovate the party. But now we'll have to do our own housecleaning if we are ever to elect a Republican President...
...Dewey Campaign Strategist Ed Jaeckle: "It was obvious all along that Dewey was carrying a lot of excess baggage-excess baggage like Taft, "Curly" Brooks, Ball, Robertson, and the rest of them. The [voters] ... apparently figured Dewey would have a hell of a time with those people and that this was the time to clean them...
...Congressman Fred Hartley Jr., coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Dewey started acting like the President of the United States too soon...