Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution did not lie in the partisans' theory that "all good flows from their own party and all political evil from the other." Said Earl Warren: "The vast majority of Americans know . . . that good Americans are to be found in both parties. They realize that there are progressives and conservatives in the ranks of both. They know that party affiliation does not change human instincts or affect loyalty to country ... No party has a patent on progress, a copyright on governmental principles or a proprietary interest in the advances made in former days...
...Default. By every available piece of evidence, the voters had already made up their minds to answer: yes, it's time for a change. That was why Earl Warren could afford to campaign like a big, friendly Saint Bernard, tail-wagging his way east across the nation. The Republicans had only to raise no ruckus, make no thumping blunders, keep their fingers crossed against a world upheaval-and their election seemed assured...
That was where Earl Warren fitted into Republican strategy for 1948. He brought some obvious political advantages to any party ticket: his straightforward, reassuring personality, his home in a key state, his handsome family, his undeniable success at the polls. In a campaign designed to reassure the voters, he was the living, beaming embodiment of reassurance...
...accident that Earl Warren had been chosen to spread the gospel of friendliness, moderation and teamwork. His whole life has been geared to just those principles. An energetic, workmanlike administrator, he has always taken pains to ruffle no feelings, stick close to the middle of the road, and work in close harness with his subordinates...
...against Big Government. But he believes that government must act when private initiative cannot. One of his few disagreements with Tom Dewey is his advocacy of government health insurance, at the state level. When the special session of Congress failed to act on housing and high prices last summer, Earl Warren was one of the few Republicans who publicly criticized Congress' do-nothing approach on these issues...