Word: deweyitis
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...minutes later, Governor Earl Warren, his wife and their three daughters drove up in two official cars. "Greetings, glad to see you," said Tom Dewey. The wives kissed each other on the cheek. Tom Jr. and twelve-year-old Johnny Dewey shook hands self-consciously with the Warren girls-Virginia, 19, Dorothy, 17, and Nina...
...little before noon, Governor Thomas E. Dewey stepped out on to the sunny front terrace of his white-columned farm house at Pawling, casting a gentleman farmer's eye on the thin clouds overhead. "I think it's going to rain," he said...
...families posed for photographers on the steps, walking across the lawn, trooping down the drive. Assisted by Mrs. Warren, Frances Dewey dutifully snipped a sprig of roses from her garden ("I'm the good weeder type," she explained). The governors took off their coats, leaned on a fence, smiled for the cameras in front of the flagpole, by the barn...
...Advice. Under a Norway maple, Dewey talked to reporters while Warren nodded approvingly. Dewey thought the situation in Berlin was "grave," said he was keeping "in close touch" through his foreign adviser, John Foster Dulles. Whom did he think the Democrats would nominate? Dewey fixed the reporter with his brown eyes, smiled slowly, and said: "I never give advice to the opposition...
Good Riddance? Tom Dewey drove back to Albany, where he received a temperate welcome from that Democratic stronghold. At the Capitol, he told 5,000 of the G.O.P. faithful: "I never thought I could learn to be so happy in any community where there are so many Democrats." He added: "I wouldn't like to think that any of them would think that a promotion was perhaps good riddance...