Word: deweyitis
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Term IV. Democrats: the 16 years do not matter; this is a choice between the alternatives of Tom Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt. Republicans: long-continued power corrupts...
...this crack at Tom Dewey's campaign of quotation by ellipsis, Franklin Roosevelt got a tremendous hand. He took it like a veteran trouper. "In my reading copy is another half sentence," he said, "but you got the point and I'm not going to use it. I happen to believe that even in a political, campaign we ought to obey that ancient injunction-Thou shalt not bear false witness...
This was an advance over any position either he or Tom Dewey had yet taken on this point. Then Candidate Roosevelt used a homely illustration. He did not think, he said, that a policeman would be very effective if, on seeing a housebreaker, he would first have to call a meeting of the town council to get a warrant...
...Dewey stayed on the attack. He kept his opposition scurrying through the voluminous records of twelve years, supplying the missing parts from quotations which Dewey had cited as indicative of New Deal thinking. At times the whole Government seemed busy justifying its long past; the White House mimeographs rolled out their "corrections" of the Dewey quotations...
...Sample: Dewey had cited a paragraph in an official report by the President's uncle, Frederic Delano, which favored keeping the boys in the Army, as an example of the Washington thinking that led to General Lewis Hershey's unfortunate remark that "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." In fact, the full text of "Uncle Freddie's" report ended up by recommending speedy demobilization. But while the Democrats were getting to their feet to shout "I object," Prosecutor Dewey was attacking...