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Harry Truman, president of courage.
The Boston Herald
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September 9, 1998|
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On Sept. 17, 1948, Harry Truman began a whistle-stop tour in his desperate bid for re-election. It's comforting to recall that we once had a man like Truman in the White House.
Everyone expected the "little man" from Missouri to lose. Franklin Roosevelt's last legacy was called an accident of history. After 16 years of the New Deal, the nation was ready for change.
In Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren, governors of New York and California, Republicans had the dream ticket. Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond would split the Democratic vote on the left and right.
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