Word: deweyitis
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Instead of ripping into Harry Truman for I'affaire Vinson, Tom Dewey decided to let the President's action speak for itself. It was good judgment and good politics. He would gain both votes and stature by refusing to follow Truman's lead in playing politics with the nation's foreign policy...
...grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very good bet to win Alabama, and a sure thing in his own state and in Mississippi...
...York Times, which opposed Dewey in 1944, declared its support for him in 1948. Its chief reason: "a marked change" in Dewey's "understanding and authority" in the field of international relations...
...Louis' "Betting Commissioner" James J. Carroll quoted Dewey at 1 to 15 to win the election. Truman was an 8 to 1 shot. (The odds on Roosevelt...
Local Angle. It is Tufty's boast (among many) that "I was the only woman writer on the Dewey train in 1944" (not Counting LIFE Researcher Lee Eitingon). The trip paid off with more than news. When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...