Word: deweyitis
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Candidate Dewey had divided his first campaign trip into three precisely wrapped parcels. Parcel No. 1 was set up at industrial Pittsburgh, thus giving the Governor a chance to point out firmly that the New Deal has gotten exactly nowhere with the planning vital to reconversion-although "we are electing a President most of whose term will be in peacetime...
Parcel No. 2, at Springfield, enabled Tom Dewey to pay the traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
...Dewey Plan. Tom Dewey had several objectives, limited but definite. The St. Louis meeting had a broad and carefully designed base. Tom Dewey's first and fundamental job now was to do the very thing which Wendell Willkie had neglected during the key July-August period of the 1940 campaign-to organize, incite and generally set in motion the thousands of state, county and precinct Republican political organizations...
Ever since his return from Chicago as the Republican nominee, Tom Dewey had plugged hard at this task, consulting steadily with the nearby state organizations, ironing out intramural squabbles, quietly dropping dead wood, promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His strategy was plain. He might not be able to excel Quarterback Roosevelt in gay improvisation, tricky forward passes and dazzling end runs, but Tom Dewey was going to try to win by sheer hard work, detailed planning, and power plays...
...Pittsburgh Dewey had told the press: "The United States simply cannot face another period like the Roosevelt depression, which lasted for eight years, with more than 10,000,000 unemployed continuously from 1933 to 1940, inclusive." At Springfield he had said: "We hold elections in this country in the midst of total war. . . . We hold this election because we know that we destroy the ideology of those we strike. Their strength depends upon one man. Our strength depends upon the American people, and upon...