Word: trumanism
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...last, Mondale, with the weird serenity of the underdog, cherished a mystical, or perhaps merely desperate, optimism. Transpose the last two digits, he suggested: 1984 is really 1948. Mondale is Harry Truman, with a handsome, vindictive grin, flourishing the headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune. Conjuring doubts to keep the pundits honest. The great hyperkinetic exercise had come to its final stage, like the jitterbugging burst at the end of a '30s dance marathon...
During a jampacked rally following the parade, Mondale recalled Harry Truman's march in a similar parade 36 years ago and how the paradigm of presidential underdogs had found sustenance in the crowds, if not in the polls. "There's something stirring," Mondale said. "The people are listening . . . They're concerned. They're involved. They're ready to vote, and we're going to win this election." Brandishing a facsimile of the November 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune that carried the premature headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, he mocked that paper's equivocating endorsement...
...days of F.D.R. and Truman are gone. In 1932, 97 freshmen rode in on Roosevelt's coattails, and in 1948, 75 Dems latched on to Truman's. But today, the powers of incumbency are too great; direct mailing and casework are simply too effective. In addition, ticket-splitting is increasingly in vogue among voters, and a Presidential ballot does not affect the Congressional one to the impressive degree that it once...
...papers in a branch of the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Last week Walter Mondale read the passage to campaign audiences to back up his charge that Reagan is guilty of "political grave robbing" when he invokes the names of such Democrats as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman-and, yes, John F. Kennedy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes replied that Reagan "had been pleasantly surprised to find the difference between Kennedy the candidate and Kennedy the President...
Unfortunately for Mondale, Reagan has succeeded in appropriating the "Peace through Strength" philosophy of defense from the Democratic Party as well. This legacy of Kennedy and Harry S Truman--nowhere more evident than in Kennedy's brave action in the Cuban Missile Crisis--has reappeared in Reagan's performances in Lebanon, Grenada, and Latin America. The diplomacy of concession and fear practiced by the Carter-Mondale Administration have receded into embarrassing memories...