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Bricker's Running Mate
Wechsler, James A. | October 7, 1944 issue

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On his eight-thousand-mile trip U.S. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey showed he was no black-mustachioed villain in a reactionary political thriller but rather a quick-change artist. The whole enterprise was a magnificent display of efficiency. It was also monotonous, uninspired. It looked as if the Grand Old Party were engaged in a conspiracy to bore the electorate and blanket the election. Dewey made few platform appearances, using press conferences as his main medium of communication. He raised the demobilization scare at Philadelphia, embraced most of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy at Louisville, and tried to pump new life into the faded "MacArthur issue" at Valentine, Nebraska.

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DEWEY, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971; POLITICAL campaigns; POLITICS, Practical; ARTISTS; PRESS conferences; INTERNATIONAL relations
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