Word: elsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Policy Adviser W. Averell Harriman and Speechwriter George Elsey came prepared with a draft of what to say, but they found that Harry Truman had already scribbled out a few words of his own. He read them, in a bristling tone, to his advisers. They turned to polishing and toning down the plain rhetoric of the President. When it was finished, more than 90 minutes later, the statement was almost pure Harry Truman. The President marched off to read it to 175 reporters...
...George Elsey, 31, is a fresh-faced Princeton graduate who worked in Franklin Roosevelt's White House map room during the war, buckled down afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...