Washington took startled note last week: a speech by Harry Truman had been well received. At the annual banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the President had droned through a prepared address renewing his plea for the enactment of price controls. Then, when the radio microphones had been switched off, he tossed aside his papers and launched into an off-the-record talk "for background."
White House restrictions forbade reports on the speech, but he had previously made most of its points on the record anyway. He talked of bipartisan unity on foreign policy,...
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