Word: dixiecrats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hebert, a Dixiecrat, a foe of the President and a crony of Louisiana's dictatorial Political Boss Leander Perez, had asked the President to proclaim a day of prayer for "guidance and wisdom." The President thanked him politely for the suggestion, but rejected it on the grounds that his Thanksgiving proclamation had already accomplished Hebert's aim. Then, in a more acrid tone, Harry Truman added...
...hustled around the state in a chartered plane, reciting his achievements and promising more of the same. At every stop he also took a couple of lusty licks at Benjamin Travis Laney, the wealthy, 53-year-old former governor and Dixiecrat leader who had come out of political retirement to seek a third term and save Arkansas from Sid McMath and those Fair Deal radicals in Washington. Everywhere McMath went, he wore the same old blue suit, red tie and dilapidated Panama. He pumped the hands of the menfolk and introduced himself with a hearty "I'm Sid McMath...
...When Dixiecrat Laney tried to picture Sid McMath as a traitor to the South, supple Sid declared against such pet Truman projects as FEPC and compulsory health insurance, but still capitalized on his closeness to Harry Truman. Ben plaintively confessed that he had never learned "this glamour-boy, superman style of politicking," and even before primary day admitted: "He has had only 18 months in which to make political enemies. I had four full years...
With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
...election day, the voters preferred Johnston, 178,000 to 154,000, a choice which National Chairman Bill Boyle applauded as, from his viewpoint, the lesser of two evils: Thurmond, as Dixiecrat candidate for President, had drawn 39 electoral votes from Harry Truman...