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In a few more confident sentences, Scott Lucas dumped the rest of Harry Truman's fondest projects over the side. Lucas saw little hope for the Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn...
"Betrayal." After the Fair Deal's high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise...
Harry Truman was looking for no such left-handed compliments. He was annoyed at Scott Lucas. "Why, oh why do they make statements when they go out of here?" he asked an aide plaintively. Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There...
Harry Truman was wearing that confident look, too, as he faced his press conference. Senator Lucas, he declared firmly, had been misunderstood. Congress should finish the job-it didn't make any difference how long it took. As for himself, he was still for everything, he said.
Scott Lucas, in an indiscreet moment, had come close to defining what more Harry Truman could get out of Congress before summer adjournment. Stubborn Harry Truman, in public at least, was unwilling to admit it.