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– 1948 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Harry S. Truman "Give Em Hell, Harry!" – Harry Truman (After a man shouted it during one of his whistle stop railroad tours) "The Buck Stops Here"—Harry Truman (Sign kept on The Resolute Desk that became a staple of Truman's presidency) [13] "Dew it with Dewey" – Thomas E. Dewey
Truman's first choice to succeed him, Chief Justice Vinson, had declined to run, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson had also turned Truman down, Vice President Barkley was considered too old, [298] and Truman disliked Senator Kefauver. Accordingly, Truman let his name be entered in the New Hampshire primary by supporters.
President Truman campaigning in an open car in October 1948. As Truman's whistle-stop tour continued the size of the crowd increased. The large, mostly spontaneous gatherings at Truman's whistle-stop events were an important sign of a change in the campaign's momentum, but this shift mostly went unnoticed by polling agencies. [140]
Former President Harry Truman with "The Buck Stops Here" sign on a recreation of his Oval Office desk. When he left office in 1953, Truman was one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. His job approval rating of 22% in the Gallup Poll of February 1952 was lower than Richard Nixon's 24% in August 1974, the month that Nixon resigned.
On July 12, the Democratic National Convention convened in Philadelphia in the same arena where the Republicans had met a few weeks earlier. Spirits were low; the Republicans had taken control of both houses of the United States Congress and a majority of state governorships during the 1946 mid-term elections, and the public opinion polls showed Truman trailing Republican nominee Dewey ...
Mark Presidents Day with one of these stirring presidential quotes from past U.S. presidents including John Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
"Voodoo Economics", a term used by George H. W. Bush in reference to President Ronald Reagan's economic policies, which came to be known as "Reaganomics", during the 1980 Republican Party presidential primaries. Before President Bush became Reagan's vice president, he viewed his eventual running mate's economic policies with great skepticism.
"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the early editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune (later Chicago Tribune) on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent United States president Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in the 1948 presidential election.