“If he’d have been voted in, I’d be out waving a flag, but it doesn’t seem right to be very happy or wave any flags now.” She had listened to her son’s speech to Congress over the radio. “Every one who heard him talk . . . will know he’s sincere and will do what’s best,” she said. (Truman’s press advisors told him that Mamma Truman’s comments could not have been more perfect; it was as if they had been written by a seasoned press agent. Truman wrote his mother on the matter on April 18: “I told them that my family all told the truth all the time and that they did not need a press agent.”)
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