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...sternest of all. Girding for the battle, 6,000 Democratic leaders assembled in Washington and paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...
This week the President will cash his chips and fly home to move from Blair House back into the renovated White House. First stop on the postvacation schedule: the big $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington, March...
...Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner (Sat. 10:30 p.m., all radio networks and CBS-TV). Speaker: President Truman...
Some, observers thought the debacle of New Hampshire would cause Truman to announce his plans soon, possibly at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington March 29. Many a pundit thought this was just the kind of rebuke which might bring Truman out as a fighting candidate. No matter how the President reacted, the New Hampshire voters had proved he was wrong when he scoffed at the primary as just "eyewash." Or, if it was eyewash, Harry Truman was up to his eyeballs...
...Presidents have left office in such a huff as to miss the inaugurations of their successors. Crusty John Adams did it* when Thomas Jefferson defeated him for re-election in 1800. He left the capital at dawn of Inauguration Day, and by March 17, 1801, after a 14-day journey, he was back on his Quincy, Mass. farm. He even congratulated himself, Yankee-fashion, on a shrewd swap, having made, he felt, "a good exchange ... of honors and virtues for manure...