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Convinced that his methods were valid for political choices as well, Gallup boldly predicted in 1936 that the then dominant poll would be wrong in predicting victory for Republican Landon over Incumbent Roosevelt. Though Gallup would sometimes err, notably in 1948, when he picked Dewey over Truman, the weekly polls of his American Institute of Public Opinion and its imitators have put politicians and others in instantaneous, generally reliable contact with the public pulse and have permanently altered the conduct and the outcome of U.S. marketing and electioneering strategy...
...woman there, was occasionally mentioned as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. But it was typical of the times that when somebody asked her what she would do if she suddenly woke up and found herself in the White House, she answered, "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." When Smith made history in 1964 by being the first woman to have her name placed in nomination as a major party-candidate for the presidency, she was dismissed with exactly 27 convention votes...
...time foreign correspondent and then managing editor of the New York Times not to mention the husband of Margaret Truman Daniel. Harry S. Truman's daughter Daniel appears to have known, or at least met, multitudes of VIP's from around the world. And he spends nearly 250 pages relaying anecdotes and recollections of almost all of them. What Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wore or what King Farouk said is about as serious as this book becomes. It would be downright irritating if it weren't so enjoyable...
Most of the anecdotes are quite interesting even fascinating and there is hardly a person more qualified than Daniel to write such a book. Through both his personal life (especially as Truman's son-in-law) and his professional he covered events ranging from World War II to Watergate he has met more dignitaries than most people care even to hear about. He capitalizes on this background, going out to his way to avoid writing the type of book you would expect from the former managing editor of the Times. He writes not of the inner-workings of the great...
Daniel has equally humorous stories to tell about Winston Churchill, British lords and ladies, Khrushchev, Castro, the CIA, and even some movie stars. The last few pages are devoted to Margaret Truman, for whom Daniel appears to have great respect. Daniel even manages to take a shot at Harvard in the midst; on Aga Khan IV '59--who is revered as a god by his subjects--he writes: "You might say he is the only divinity with a degree from Harvard, at though some other Harvard graduates have intimations of immortality...