It was going to be Harry Truman on the first ballot, just as Harry Truman had said all along that it would be. Through all the stop-Truman scrambling of the week before the convention, the President had never doubted that the nomination would settle down on him. Never for a moment had he considered stepping aside. Harry Truman is a man with faith in his lucky political star.
Returning from Bolivar, Mo. last week, he was asleep when his special train reached St. Louis after midnight. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, woke him. He told the President that newsmen...
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