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Substitute for Shift. The Democratic leaders relied (correctly, as it turned out) on the inability of the Southerners to do the normal thing and shift parties. But after the failure of the Dixiecrat bolt at the 1948 convention, opposition to Truman and the FEPC grew in the South. As 1952 approached, Southern leaders resolved to stop Truman and FEPC inside the party-or to bolt it and throw the victory to the Republicans, which is the South's substitute for a normal shift of votes across party lines...
...force against Truman. How much it had to do with his decision not to run may never be known. Succeeding in their main objective, the Southerners keep the Russell candidacy alive and the South solid in order to veto some other unacceptable candidate and to force a compromise on FEPC...
...platform opened with strange language for a Republican gathering: "We pledge adherence to the principles of Thomas Jefferson and other pioneers that the best government is the least government." Following through on that, the delegates, nearly one-third of whom were Negroes, took a strong stand against FEPC...
...prolonged economic stability . . . [But] the tax burden ... is due largely to the national defense effort . . ." Taft-Hartley law: "There are . . . more than a hundred provisions, I think-sections, subsections . . . I couldn't answer am I for or against it ... I think the law needs revision . . ." Compulsory FEPC: "I would hope very much that the problem of civil rights could be administered by the states . . . If it's impossible for the states to do this job and do it properly, then I would say the Federal Government must...
...letter to Kulp, they asked such questions as, "Is Eisenhower in favor of a compulsory FEPC?", "Would he support the candidacy of Senator McCarthy on the Republican ticket in Wisconsin?", and "Does Eisenhower favor the repeal of the McCarran...