Word: deweyitis
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...heart. Roosevelt took the drug in normal doses for the rest of his life. In addition, Mclntire ordered F.D.R. to shorten his work schedule to only six hours a day, a cutback that the President docilely accepted until the 1944 race against New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey began to quicken...
After his landslide victory in November 1944 over Dewey (who was "a son of a bitch," he said to Aide William Hassett), Roosevelt was exhausted. Still, in January he journeyed by sea and air to the Crimea for the Yalta Conference, the most momentous of the wartime meetings with Stalin and Churchill...
Nixon was thrust into politics in 1946 when a group of Southern California Republicans urged him to challenge five-term Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis. His prospective sponsors first wanted to know whether Nixon was in fact a Republican. "I guess so," he replied. "I voted for Dewey." Voorhis was an earnest liberal, but Nixon managed to suggest that he was a dangerous left-winger by linking him to the radical California Political Action Committee...
From the time he was first elected Governor in 1942, there was talk that he might some day be President. He led a favorite-son delegation to the 1944, '48 and '52 G.O.P. conventions and let himself be talked into being Thomas Dewey's running mate in 1948, though he had no real interest in the vice presidency: "I can't spend my years sitting up there calling balls and strikes in the Senate." Warren was always the political independent. Even in 1952, when Eisenhower needed only nine more votes to beat Robert A. Taft...
...issue, next to stories about Dewey and Truman, was a picture of 23 Radcliffe women. The picture was headlined with the words "Non-partisan beauties." The caption read: "Politics didn't have the spotlight all to itself as the term went by. A pretty face and figure still carry a lot of appeal, and to prove, it, Mademoiselle (magazine) conducted a fashion show over at Radcliffe. The 23 lovelies shown above moved into the second round of the contest, which was held in October. Politics took a back seat, at least for the moment, while the contestants put themselves into...