and Eddie McKim, who would serve as security. McKim would stand next to Truman during speeches and rallies, pretending to have a gun. “Nobody knew whether or not I was a Secret Service man,” McKim noted. The candidate had worked through hard-fought Missouri elections before, but this was a national campaign. The Democratic National Committee called the shots and covered the bills. The committee’s secretary, George Allen, was the “advance man,” going from town to town to drum up a crowd so when Truman arrived on his train, he could step out onto a platform on the back, where a loudspeaker
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