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After paying warmer-than-dutiful tribute to Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman, Harry got right down to his favorite subject-the Republican Party. The Republicans, said he, "are campaigning on the idea that it is time for a change. But they don't . . . tell you what kind of a change they really want." Among the things that Harry said the Republicans wanted to change were: full employment, the current status of unions, social security, public housing, rural electrification and "our policy of stabilizing prices...
...before he left New York for Springfield and a weekend of work on his Labor Day speech, it became clear that Stevenson's appeal to the Negro "specialinterest" group had paid off. Said Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who had threatened to lead a Negro "boycott" of Stevenson and Sparkman: "We are just going all out for him now. The platform has been spelled out in his speeches of last night. All doubts about him have been removed from my mind...
...state convention earlier in the week, Mississippi Democrats also voted to back the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. After the convention adjourned, some dissidents held a rump meeting of "Democrats for Eisenhower," named an independent slate of electors pledged...
...effect. Newsmen and Congressmen began clamoring for release of the forbidden shocker. The State Department, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency all insisted that the report be classified as secret, because its contents might give aid & comfort to Soviet propaganda in the Middle East. In June, after Senator John Sparkman's Small Business Committee demanded the report's release, Harry Truman didn't even bother to reply. He had already suppressed it for what he called the good of the nation. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sparkman, now the vice-presidential nominee, asked again, Harry Truman...
Like many a much-touted peep show, the document proved to be something less than advertised. Candidate Sparkman played it for all it was worth. He had his own Small Business Committee's name put on the report (which it had done nothing to prepare), wrote his own introduction to it. He distributed only a limited edition (35 copies) to newsmen and let them hunt for the details of the wicked international oil cartel they had heard so much about. But for all of Sparkman's buildup, the document turned out to be little but ancient history, nearly...