Word: deweyitis
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...Political Bushwhacking." Press comment was generally divided along partisan lines. The New York Times, which seems to prefer Term IV to Tom Dewey, praised the speech; the Republican New York Herald Tribune derided it. Of the independents, the most significant comment came from the Washington Post, which is more often pro-Roosevelt than not. The Post severely criticized the speech as "a cheap variety of political bushwhacking . . . at a moment when spiritual leadership of a high order is urgently needed. . . . It is doubtful whether the President's indispensability complex has ever been more boldly exhibited...
...Dewey got hit twice last week, once by a flying thermos jug, when his train crashed in Oregon, and once by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Champ had swung-a full roundhouse blow. And it was plain to the newsmen on the Dewey Special that the challenger had been hit hard-as plain as when a boxer drops his gloves and his eyes glaze...
...Dewey radio would not work that night, as the Dewey party rolled through the flat Arizona desert, eastbound from California after a full week of campaigning on the coast (see below). But the reporters' radio, in the lounge car, worked perfectly, almost as perfectly as the Champ had used it. And soon word of the speech filtered through to the Dewey...
...Dewey and his chief speechwriter, scholarly Elliott V. Bell, decided te sleep on it, but took the precaution to wire New York for a full text of the F.D.R. speech. Reading it the next morning in the cold light of day and without benefit of the superb Roosevelt inflection, Speechwriter Bell thought his chief could ignore it. But then the telegrams began to pour in from irate Republicans offering advice on how to answer the President...