Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stirring Up Trouble. For the next two days, Harry Truman had the time of his life while politicians beat a path to his door (hardly a news story came out of Chicago that did not note that Truman was "obviously enjoying himself"). Stevenson visited for 30 minutes, left Truman's inner room looking glum, but turned on a brave smile when he emerged into the corridor. Harriman's headquarters soon got the good word: in his talk with Stevenson, Truman had flatly rejected 1) an endorsement of Adlai, and 2) a neutral stance between Stevenson and Harriman. Harriman...
...morning of his big day, Truman was up at 7 o'clock, strutted along on his morning walk, reveled in his role as star of the Democratic show. Asked a newsman: What did he intend to say at his press conference that afternoon? Beamed Truman: "Nobody knows but me." Had he made up his mind? "Yes," laughed Truman, "I've made up my mind-but I might want to change it." Almost as soon as he returned to the hotel, his visitors began pouring in again. Promised Truman to one of them, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore...
...Stevenson followers made desperate eleventh-hour efforts to win Truman back-but they all found Harriman's Sam Rosenman immovably settled in the Truman suite. "We can't get any of our boys in to talk to the old man," mourned a top Stevenson adviser. "That s.o.b. is sitting right there in Truman's lap." All the Stevenson hopes were placed on Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, whose political judgment Truman had always trusted. Chapman walked into Truman's suite, saw Sam Rosenman sitting there, dug an elbow deep in Rosenman's heavily...
After a brief talk with Texas' Favorite Son Lyndon Johnson (see below), Truman greeted 32 dyed-in-the-courthouse Trumanites whom he calls his "flying squad." Some of the high flyers: ex-National Chairmen Frank McKinney and Bill Boyle, California Oilman Ed Pauley, former White House Assistant Donald (Deepfreeze) Dawson, onetime Senate Secretary Les Biffle, ex-White House Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done...
Then Harry Truman marched into the Sheraton-Blackstone's Crystal Ballroom, faced the overflow crowd and grinned as though he had lived his life for that moment...