Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl Warren made one important proviso when he agreed to become Tom Dewey's running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...
They complained, as prisoners always do, of poor food, but seemingly they had reason. Breakfast consists of a small cup of mate, sometimes with sugar, seldom with a biscuit. Meat, usually rotten, is served occasionally, but the dinner staple is corn and beans, which the prisoners eat seated on the floor...
F.D.R.'s rejection of Wallace as a running mate in 1944 became a blow from which Wallace never recovered. An embittered and disappointed man, he found some small solace in demanding and getting the Commerce job of his old enemy, Jesse Jones. In April 1945, he saw Truman step into the position which he, Wallace, might have had. A year and a half later, confused, defiant and disillusioned, he rushed headlong out of the Democratic pasture and straight into the Communists' outstretched hands...
Last Wail. Let the Democrats nominate Ike as a nonpartisan, cried Pepper. Let Ike write his own platform, pick his own running mate. Let him be a "national" President, free to choose anyone, Democrat or Republican, for his administration. In short, let Ike go before the country as a Man-on-Horseback-who would, incidentally, carry the rachitic Democratic Party to safety...
Ovation or no, the final choice of a running mate was up to Harry Truman...