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...national slogan ("Ring the bells and tell the people"). Then, as the last event on the two-day agenda, they heard the President of the U.S. open his campaign for re-election and set forth the 1956 Republican line. Ike's speech, the very antithesis of give-'em-hell, was a low-keyed, broad-based appeal to "All Americans-Republicans, Independents and sound-thinking Democrats." Said the President: "We welcome them...
...rally Friday night, May 11, with "give-'em-hell" type speeches by Professors Samuel H. Beer and Seymour E. Harris '20, and a prominent woman Democrat will open the proceedings. Auditions for nominating speeches will also be held that night...
...stampeding Congress was overrunning President Eisenhower on the farm issue last week, the Democrats suddenly chucked their inhibitions and, for the first time in the campaign, began directing their political fire squarely at Ike. Harry Truman called the range and fired the big salvo in his first give-'em-hell personal denunciation of the man who followed him in the White House. Other Democratic campaigners tried to make an issue out of everything they could lay a thought on-Ike's golfing, his stance at the Geneva Conference, the Soviet economic offensive, the Middle East, interest rates...
...good old days of 1948. Arriving in Des Moines for Iowa's Jackson Day dinner, that self-styled "political has-been," Harry Truman, grinned happily at the sight of a team of midget mules hitched to a cart that bore the sign "Welcome, Harry. Give 'Em Hell." Said he: "I never did give 'em hell. I just told them the truth and they couldn't stand...
...Look Behind the Mask." "Remember," said Harry, "this is Ike's record just as much as it is Ezra Taft Benson's. Secretary Benson is merely the President's hired man." His voice taking on the old whistle-stop vigor, he gave 'em more: "This is one of the most amazing records of political betrayal I have ever seen in all my years of public life . . . In 1952 General Eisenhower went all over the country handing out promises about what he would do for the farmers ... At Brookings, S. Dak. he said: ' The Republican Party...