Next step is portland, oregon. He makes another stirring bid for the northwest ballots. Well, it appears he has at least one hardened supporter. Those are some of the regions finest salmon specificitiments. Well know soon. November is just around the corner. President truman continues his swing. The chief executive gets a present which he said will be on the white house lawn for the next four years. He rides to the home of his old friend, cactus jack, for a real texas breakfast and and gets a warm welcome. Later, he visits the alamo. A shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd meets the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star state. 23 electoral votes. Addressing civil rights, saying the republicans dont want public unity. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam raburn, former speaker of the house. At the boarder, bringing the southern vote back into line. Dewey defeats truman. From the 1948 president ial campaign. Harry s. Truman, pictured her
Surprising life. In 1964 tom dewey was at the white house. Lbj wanted to get him to chair a National Crime commission. In any event, he begged off of that, but he pointed out to lbj, he said, have you looked at the schedule of your convention in Atlantic City . He was meeting with Marvin Watson, who was the president s top aide, chief of staff in effect. Anyway, there was a day set aside as a tribute to president kennedy, and it was up front. And dewey pointed out that, you know, if this happens jackie will be there, rose and bobby and teddy and the whole family and people will cry and there will be this enormous emotional and before you know it, Bobby Kennedy will be your running mate whether you like it or not. And the story is the president got on the phone and called Marvin Watson and said move kennedy day from day one to day four. The result is that Hubert Humphrey became the running mate instead. Humphrey was in deweys debt until the day he died. And they were social friends. The
Me, which is a pretty shrewd observation, but he always liked to surround himself with people who he said whose careers were ahead of them, and the fact that nixon was 39 years old was a way of not only mollifying the taft wing of the party, but in some ways projecting out into the future his vision of the republican party. And he was successful at keeping the taft wing of the party at bay. Well, yeah. First of all, senator taft, unfortunately, died early in the eisenhower presidency. Its a very touching scene where dewey goes to the hospital without telling anyone. He goes in and slips in to visit taft, what must have been a somewhat surreal final meeting in the hospital, and i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall. Do you know anything about that meeting . No. Lets hear from bob next, west new york, new jersey . Caller good evening. What did governor dewey think of governor rockefeller as an inheritor of the dewey mantle of eastern republicanism . Well, ill defer to tom, wh
There was a judge murphy from new york city and edward r. Mur they wanted to play, continue playing at mr. Murrows park. They asked me to caddie but it was getting late in the day. I said, im about eight miles away and i need a ride when were through. Well, one gentleman spoke up and said, oh, dont worry, ill take you. To make a long story longer, when they finished, that man got in his car and left and i was stranded there. Well, governor dewey saw to it that i had a ride back to the village, and ill never forget that. I was very grateful for him. Thats my comment. All right. That was bill in pauling, new york. Mike, staten island, new york. Caller yes. Id like to ask mr. Smith if mr. Dewey had won the 1944 election, what would his policy as far as ending the war have been . 1944, did you say . Caller yes. I think its a fair question, but, i think if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point the nazi defeat was only a question
Gov. Thomas e. Dewey which is over california on his Campaign Around the nation. Striking at communist elements in government, the gop leader 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 former speaker of the house. In fort worth, to try to bring the southern vote back into line. Dewey defeats truman, the famous headline from the