After a few years in Washington, most politicians can detect the faint hiss of escaping gossip the way bird dogs can hear whistles pitched too high for the human ear. Last week, as Harry Truman set out on his 17-day tour of the West, hundreds of the initiated swore they could hear tongues wagging across the capital in salvos like a 21-gun salute. The reason: three days before starting out, the President had notified Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath (who had planned the trip) that he and his professional politicos...
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