Draws big audiences. The next step is portland, oregon with mrs. Dewey by his side. He makes another stirring bid he has at least one ardent supporter. Those are some of the regions finest specimens. We will know soon. In november is just around the corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. The chief executive get a president. He writes to the home of his own his old friend cactus aand its a war record warm welcome on route to. He visits the alamo. The historic shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd to greet the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star states 23 electoral votes. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam rayburn, former soup e. Deweys Campaign Manager and the confidence they had early on. Take a look. Champagne flows freely. Victory is in the air. The first returns had truman in the lead, but republicans are not worried. And then he brings good news secured we now know that governor do we will carry new york state by 50,000 dewey reprd that. Opposed to that were the conservatives, but westerners, many of them isolationists who rallied around bob rttaft. He had precipitated the split. That never really healed. When republicans took congress,s campaign in 1948 and the criticism he has of the truman administration. On january 20, we will enter in a new era. There will begin in washington the biggest on raveling, on spiraling operation and our do we vs. Truman hypothetical . The popular notion is that thomas e. Dewey drowned in a sea of complacency. He was taken by surprise by what happened in the suite that night. The fact is, he knew. He was the first candidates to have a fulltime polling unit as part of his campaign. He listened to the pollsters. He had an appreciation of their art. He was well aware of the fact his lead was slipping. There were people who came to him in the last 10 days of the campaign and he acknowledged that the lead was slipping. To one of them, he said never talk when very shortly in his campaign, he does to thomas e. Dewey what he did to the Republican Congress. The fact of the matter was, a democratic president riding the crest of prosperity in the fall of 1948 could point a finger at the Republican Congress and in the fact suggest people. Truman was not bashful about doing it. If dewey had to say about communists in 1948. Some jeer at the problem calling it a red herring. Some people get panicky about it. I do not belong to either of those groups. We must neither ignore or outlaw them. If we ignore them, we give them the of unity that they want. If we all love them, we give them the marty down that they want even more. We well in the government we get to last january we will keep the american debate. Lets listen in and well talk about it. Theres no such thing as a constitutional right to destroy all constitutional rights. Theres no such thing as a freedom to destroy freedom. The right of man to liberty is inherent in the nature of man. To win it, and to maintain it requires courage and sacrifice and it also requires intelligence and realism and determination in the establishment of the laws and the systems of justice to serve mankind. I submit that the communist organization in america and in the freedom loving countries of the world should be outlawed. Heres an issue of the height principle in practical application. People of this country are asked to outlaw communism. That means this, shall we in america, in order to defeat a totalitarian system which we detest, voluntarily adopt the method of that system . I want the people of the United States to know exactly where i stand on this proposal, because it goes to the very heart of the qualification of any candidate for office and to the inner nature of the kind of a country we want to live in. I am unalterably, wholeheartedly, unswervingly against any scheme to write laws outlawing people because of their religious, political, social or economic ideas. Im against it because its a violation of the constitution of the United States and of the bill of rights, and clearly so. Im against it because its immoral and nothing but totalitarianism itself. Im against it because i know, from a great many Years Experience in the enforcement of the law, that the proposal wouldnt work, and, instead, it would rapidly advance the cause of communism in the united like mr. District attorney and if you think about it, a Television Studio is not terribly dissimilar from a courtroom. The strength he had in the courtroom, the ability to make his case, to connect, whether it was with a jury or with viewers, there are some Early Television kinescopes in his third race for governor, for example, where he is very effective in front of the camera and i think he probably wished, in retrospect, that he could have run the 1948 president from his party. Theres been honest contention, spirited disagreement, and i believe, considerable arguments. But dont let anybody be misled by that. You have given here, in this hall, a moving and dramatic hope of how americans, who honestly differ, close ranks and move forward for the nations wellbeing, shoulder to shoulder. [applause] let me assure you that, beginning next january 20, there will be team work in the government of the United States of america. When these rights are secure in this world of ours, the permanent ideals of the Republican Party shall have been realized. [applause] the ideals of the American People are the ideals of the Republican Party. We have, tonight, and in these days which preceded us, in philadelphia, lighted a beacon in this cradle of our own independence as a great america. Weve lighted a beacon to give eternal hope that men may live in liberty with Human Dignity and before god and, loving him, erect and free. [applause] thomas e. Dewey, our contender this evening, accepting the g. O. P. Nomination at the convention in philadelphia in 1948. We are coming to differed, fran. Its interesting. For someone who has sort of been often caricatured, hes actually a much more dynamic campaigner. When he ran for district attorney, for example, in New York County, New York County was one county and there were people all over the burroughs of new york city that day who wanted to vote for thomas dewey. Thomas dewey wasnt on their ballot. He had electrified this city with his exploits taking on the rackets. Cooked up this huge model of the white house and they had, they had aly enough, parade of donkeys all ready to go through and around the white house as soon as the formalities were observed and your dad was proclaimed the winner. No one had thought to weigh in a supply of democratic donkeys. They had republican elephants, rather. That, in a nutshell, is what the media expected attorney in new york. Youve been given a most difficult task, but an opportunity to be of great help to the people of this city. What can we do for you . I need a small squad of detectives who will go to work on this job as they never have before, who will know that the mayor and the commissioner are behind them personally all the time. Is everything set . Hes got a full list. Every gangster in the mob is launched this minute. Any sign of a leak . They dont suspect a thing. Its 10 00 tonight, pick up the 15 ring leaders first. Here are the sealed orders for the men. With crack new york detectives, deweys roundups were skillfully directed. Mob after mob were taken by surprise. Simultaneously all over the city, the underworld wases rounded up. We have made a real start on cleaning the gangsters out of new york. For 20 years, the underworld has preyed on our people and robbed them and then frightened them into silence. But now, the day of fear of the come from a farming environment. In fact, during world war i he was too young to enlist an he worked on a farm in the owasso area. My sense is and you thought much better that he was very happy being a dairy farmer. It was a side of him that probably would surprise the public. Im not sure that your mother was wild about it. Im not sure you were wild about living there. What was it like . Well, we were dont know when the war was going to end. And the dewey appeal was that if america was at piece in 1945, it was believed that he would have a much stronger electoral taste than if the country would be at war. Good evening. Thank you very having me. I want to commend to show you t Campaign Announcement in 1939. I think im confident and that of my associates in the Republican Party in the state of new york. I appreciate your it was that c balance. In terms of the operation, he cleaned up the cobwebs in albany. Albany had been run by one party for 20 years. There was waste and fraud and abuse. But in a more creative way, he cut technician in cars we. Cars well. What im commenting on is dewey was way ahead in the polls and he ran the dumbest campaign ive ever seen. He was he didnt attack truman and if he ran as if he was already president. He started a blockade. Pear harbor is being celt up by roosevelt. The gloves and hit roosevelt. Now prior to that he delivered what i call 1948 type of speeches where he talked about home, mother and god and the american flag. But after that Oklahoma City speech, i think that convinced most republicans they had a were. E to beat lets show a moment from tom dewey criticizing the new deal. The record of this administration as one chapter of that failure. But still, we agree that the new deal is a failure at home, but its foreign policies are very good. Let me ask you, can an administration which is so dis united and unsuccessful at home be any better abroad . Can an administration which is filled with fighting and that fighting were we can see it be any better abroad where we cannot see it . These things we pledged to you. An administration and which you will not have to support the three men to do one mans job. [applause] an administration which will root out waste can bring order out of present chaos. An administration which will give the people of this country receipts to the taxes they all paid. An Administration Free from the influence of communists and corrupt big city machines. An administration that will devote itself to the single minded purpose of jobs and opportunity for all. [applause] now the 1948 campaign against truman i think the 1944 campaign i am not sure he ever really expected to win. I think he expected to win four years later. Again, as we talked a little bit earlier, he was not a complacent figure sitting unquestionably on his lead that you might think from some of the textbook accounts. He was very confident of the fact that Public Opinion was a dynamic thing. He sensed a slippage in the last few days of the campaign. I think he felt he was almost trapped. He had a strategy that brought him this far. There was no reason to believe it would not carry him across the finish line first. American samoa thomas e. Dooley, jr. Told us tonight, his person. Turned the page they just wanted to keep him an office because they were at a board. I think if they were not in war, dewey would have won hands down. That is exactly as i said earlier. That was the conundrum. You could not know. It is interesting