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...this campaign another herring turns up. In former years it has been British or French-and a variety of other things. But this year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an election where Communism is not a controversy between the two major parties. Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring and destroy that false issue. . . . I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communism or of any other alien...
There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...
After lunch, photographers were summoned. When Governor Landon hung back in the crowd of notables, President Roosevelt turned to Governor Herring, said. "Won't you bring the Governor up closer?" Nominee Landon took his stance by the President's side and the two grinned amiably at each other as flash bulbs flared. The photographs, centring every eye on Alf Landon in the midst of a mass of dark-suited figures, proved that the Republican nominee had performed his master maneuver, whether planned or accidental, when he put on a white suit that morning...
...President and his advisers retired to Governor Herring's office for their series of individual conferences with State groups. Precedence was settled by admitting the groups according to the order in which their States had been admitted to the Union. Missouri (1821) went first, next Iowa (1846), then Kansas (1861). With Senators Capper and McGill and his four experts, Governor Landon pulled up a chair, spent half an hour discussing Drought in Kansas with the President and those other prime Republican targets, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Resettlement Administrator Tugwell. WPAdministrator Hopkins. Their talk, it was reported, differed...
...Governor Landon drove down to the Rock Island yards for a steak dinner with the other Governors in the Presidential private car. This time he sat on the President's left and the conversation, according to Governor Herring, ranged over "everything from Spain to the Drought...