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 represented 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 ca
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
Its like, gee whiz, this kind of thats real linoleum on the floor, isnt it . I mean, this was not i mean, you go to you go to hyde park or you go to some of these other president ial homes and they are pretty modest. Even like calvin coolidges. You go to his house before hes president and its really modest. Its like you know, some place youd see in amsterdam or something. And afterwards he does have to move into a big place. Harry truman never moves into the big place and his circumstances are sufficiently modest that he is the guy that hes why we have president ial pensions. Up to that point we really dont have that and they may be independently wealthy like a Herbert Hoover or theyre able to have accomplished something more than truman did, very modest on the payroll his whole life, federal or local, county government. So truman is a modest guy. He might have been taking all these walks to save on gasoline, i dont know. Next . The photograph, the photograph that you have on your sign
At cspan. Org you can watch any time from your convenience. Heres how. Go to our home page, cspan. Org, and click on the Video Library search bar. Here you can type in the name of a speaker, sponsor of a bill, or even event topic. Review the list of results and click on the program youd like to watch, or refine your search with our many search tools. If youre looking for the most current programs, youll want to search the Video Library. Our home page has them ready for your immediate viewing, such as todays washington journal or the events weve covered that day. Cspan. Org is a Public Service of your cable provider. Check it out at cspan. Org. And now the contenders, our 14week series of people who ran for president and lost but nevertheless changed political history. We feature thomas dewey, former prosecutor who ran for president in 1944 and 1948. This program was recorded at the Roosevelt Hotel in new york city. Its about two hours. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. Gover
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