Word: hannegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional politicians suddenly realized that 1948 is only eleven months away. Back on the job after a long illness, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan got started in a hurry...
...rousing speech before 2,000 New York postal employees (prohibited by law from playing politics), Postmaster Hannegan made what amounted to an official announcement that Harry Truman will be a candidate next year. He piled up his eulogies like a convention keynoter: "Granite courage . . . level-headed wisdom . . . integrity and high statesmanship." Carefully omitting any reference to F.D.R. and the New Deal, he laid down the new Democratic line: "We are on our way towards peace and prosperity because of the leadership of Harry Truman. . . . The people of America have learned that Harry Truman wears well...
Pick 'em Up. If that was the answer to their blowup, the question for earnest Democratic politicians was what to do next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...
...Democrats had other troubles. Their big city machines had collapsed or sprung dangerous leaks (see below). Defeat had accentuated bickering and bad blood among party regulars. Suddenly everybody was after National Chairman Bob Hannegan's scalp (while Bob hurried to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital with a dangerously high blood pressure...
Party Chairman Hannegan asked in agony: What would be the political effect of higher prices? And what about public reaction to the President reversing himself right after proclaiming that he was against decontrol of meat (TIME...