Word: goplatform
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Advice from the South. White House visitors whistled to keep up their courage. Tom Dewey was very much a conservative, they said, and thus very much open to attack as representing special interests. The GOPlatform was "nothing but the reiteration of promises they have failed to keep in the past." Candidate Truman was "definitely encouraged" about his chances, the visitors said...
...Common Fraud." He "got quite a laugh," he said, when he read the liberal labor plank in the 1944 GOPlatform, endorsed by the very men who "have personally spent years of effort and energy-and much money-in fighting every one of those [New Deal] laws in the Congress and in the press and in the courts. . . ." This, he said, was "a fair example of their insincerity and inconsistency." He described what he called the effort of the Republican Old Guard to switch labels with the New Deal as "the most obvious common or garden variety of fraud...
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