Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Qualified." He would, he said, read his handwritten statement twice. After the first time, the newsmen "who feel like they want to break a leg to get to the telephone may do so." The second reading would be for "the slow-motion boys." As flashbulbs blazed around Truman, he told photographers: "You fellows quit. You've had enough now." Then, savoring every word, he began to read: "This statement is dated August 11, 1956, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, Chicago time...
...first big hint came when Truman said caustically: "I have little faith in the value of the bandwagon operation nor in the reliability of polls-political polls." Truman made his decision even more obvious with the words: "I realize that my expression of a choice at this time will cause disappointment in some and may cause resentment in others, but against the mounting crises in the world, I know that this convention must name a man who has the experience and the ability to act as President immediately upon assuming that office, without risking a period of costly and dangerous...
Then, his eyes glinting as he headed into the fight, Harry Truman spoke the magic words: "I believe that the man best qualified to be the next President of the U.S. is Governor Harriman of New York ... I know him, and you can depend...
...stuck to his Senate knitting, went back to Texas to loll under the sun on his LBJ Ranch at Stonewall, Texas, made little if any effort to round up delegates outside the 56 pledged to him from his home state. But last week-on the very day that Harry Truman threw the convention into an uproar-Lyndon Johnson strode into the center of the presidential ring...
...have been right-for that afternoon Johnson received a summons from Harry Truman to come on the double. Galloping to Truman's suite, Johnson found Harry ready to leave for his climactic news conference. Said Harry to Lyndon: "I'm opening this thing up so anybody can get it-including you." That was exactly what Harry Truman proceeded to do: by coming out for Averell Harriman, he set Lyndon Johnson up as a possible rallying point for Southern delegates with perhaps 200 precious votes. In the event of a deadlock between Harriman and Stevenson, any hopeful candidate would...