Word: truman
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...Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less than a majority, most often because of third and fourth parties. Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and Truman all had to make do with less than 50%, as did John F. Kennedy. But not since Wilson's first election in 1912 with 41.9% of the vote, has a President received so small a share as Nixon has. And no other modern President has been elected...
Were the Democrats about to pull off an upset that would dwarf even Harry Truman's defeat of Thomas Dewey exactly 20 years earlier? For the pessimists in Nixon's camp, there were portents aplenty. The usually reliable New York Daily News straw poll gave Humphrey a 3.3-point lead in New York. California, once thought to be so secure for the G.O.P. that Nixon's strategists wondered why Humphrey was wasting so much time there, suddenly turned into a neck-and-neck race, with the Los Angeles Times State Poll giving Nixon a bare one-point...
...lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues, and membership runs to the likes of Senator Jacob Javits, Henry Ford, Truman Capote, the Duke of Bedford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Douglas Dillon and George Plimpton. As Ginger Rogers says: "It's where you can meet the people you want to meet...
...inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist Study Club at Illinois, Shanker devoted his extracurricular time to increasing attendance at club functions from an average of 15 to 500; he helped Socialist Norman Thomas draw a bigger crowd than either Tom Dewey or Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential campaign. He picketed Urbana's segregated movie houses and restaurants. A pacifist, he registered for a time as a conscientious objector...
...Sorel's Bestiary" for Ramparts. Every month he classified by species one of the public figures he liked least, The late Francis Cardinal Spellman became a red bird called Spellmanus Bellicosus, riding a missile and clutching an olive branch in his teeth. Lyndon Johnson appeared as a crocodile. Truman Capote swam in a murky Central Park lake as a swellfish (libris vendor...