"If I'm Wrong. . . "
Harry Truman was weary, his sunburned nose was peeling and his lips were cracked. But when he got back to Washington last week he was full of bounce; he was delighted with his 15-day, 9,505-mile, 73-speech campaign trip. His whirl through 18 states had been his rehearsal for the big campaign, and he was convinced that the people liked it. He planned to give them a lot more of the same before November.
Truman—and his White House staff—had left their despair out West. The President was sure...
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