Word: subtext
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...