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...Franklin D. Roosevelt raced through the streets in an open touring car on his way to someplace else, and in 1952 Harry Truman actually stopped off to campaign for Adlai Stevenson. But nothing like this had ever happened before to Clinton, Mass., and the residents of the old factory town 36 miles west of Boston were doing their best to get ready for the momentous day. They swept the streets, hosed down the red brick storefronts, and slapped a coat of paint on the interior of the town hall, where the great event would take place...
...first woman network correspondent to cover a national political convention for TV had a double assignment. She was supposed to interview Bess Truman and Frances Dewey and, while she was at it, apply their pancake makeup. Pauline Frederick rose from that humiliating start in 1948 to a distinguished career as NBC's United Nations correspondent. By the time she retired from NBC in 1974, only a handful of women had followed her into the influential, hotly coveted but obdurately masculine preserve of network reporting...
...pioneered the concept with a flawless imitation of the ropetwirling political satirist Will Rogers, but he has since moved from delivering the finely honed barbs of the nation's greatest "ridiculer" of Presidents to actually portraying Presidents themselves. He snared an Oscar nomination for a representation of Harry S. Truman that made its way successfully from stage to screen to tube under the fiery title Give 'Em Hell, Harry...
...setting was the Oval Office, where Carter sat in a pale orange wingback chair, facing two old-fashioned stand-up microphones and a television screen showing the names of his invisible inquisitors. Behind him, the presidential desk was bare, save for a few mementos and Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE plaque...
...workaholic society Harry Truman would have been a flake. Right in the middle of rebuilding the world after World War II, he used to insist on interludes with his neighbors from Independence, Mo., poker games on his yacht on the Potomac and hours of inexpert splashing around in the warm waters of Key West. He was a successful President...