Dewey Defeats Truman Quotes

“The second executive order—9981—was the historic one. With the swipe of a pen, Truman desegregated the United States military. The move was entirely unexpected; it “caught almost everyone off guard,” recalled Clark Clifford.”
― A.J. Baime, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul – The Story of Truman's Victory and the Dawn of the Cold War

“Democratic congressman Sam Rayburn of Texas—who had been a longtime Speaker of the House and was a close friend of Harry Truman’s—summed up the whole controversy before a group of fellow Texas politicians. “All your high-flown political vocabulary boils down to just three words,” Rayburn said. “Nigger, nigger, nigger!”
― A.J. Baime, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul – The Story of Truman's Victory and the Dawn of the Cold War

“One year before the election, on November 15, 1947, a Republican political operative wrote a scathing memo that landed on Dewey’s desk (the signature on this memo is illegible). The document put into words a fear that was growing among both Democrats and Republicans—that the Soviets would attempt to influence the outcome of the 1948 presidential election.”
― A.J. Baime, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul – The Story of Truman's Victory and the Dawn of the Cold War

“The committee rented out the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at the”
― A.J. Baime, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul – The Story of Truman's Victory and the Dawn of the Cold War

“The United States of America is fair game for Moscow and has been for years,” the memo concluded. “And, as far as anyone is willing to see, the year 1948 will be the year in which Soviet Russia will do everything in its power to influence the election here.”
― A.J. Baime, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul – The Story of Truman's Victory and the Dawn of the Cold War