THE PRESIDENCY: Muddling Through

THE PRESIDENCY

The nation's press had something important to tell its readers; it was getting a little worried about the new man in the White House. The news was written more in warning than in anger, but it had a definite bite and it came from all quarters.

The New York Times's Arthur Krock noted that the talk among Democrats in Washington was not so much about foreign affairs or domestic labor troubles as about the President's popularity and whether it was falling off. Pundit Krock thought it was. The Wall Street Journal reported that Harry Truman's performance as a peacetime President "is...

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