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Hariold E. Stassen left New England tonight after a four day visit, declaring that talks with G. O. P. leaders in the northeast states had encouraged him in his campaign for the Republican nomination for President...
...problem. The 1948 presidential race was heating up, but all the steam so far was on the Republican side (see Political Notes). Harry Truman, who is not a master of stimulating interest in his own party, might soon have to reverse an earlier decision and follow Tom Dewey, Harold Stassen and Bob Taft around the country...
...Harold Stassen rolled into Pendleton, Ore. for the Northwest cow country's famed annual rodeo. He went through the hat routine for distinguished guests: Pendletonians tried to fit him with a cowboy hat, finally found one almost big enough for such a big visitor. Stassen, who wears a 7⅞, settled for a 7⅝. He did what a presidential candidate ought to do: risked his dignity by riding a horse through Pendleton's horse-riding populace. Said ex-Navyman Stassen: "At least I've ridden a little more than Admiral Halsey...
Besides Marshall, two other political figures pushed into the limelight when James V. Forrestal took the oath as the nation's first Secretary of Defense and Harold E. Stassen, open candidate for the '48 Republican presidential nomination, called on President Truman for immediate action on food shortages and aid to Europe...
...This man Stassen has the brains, stature, a good clean record, and I believe everything needed to make a good President...