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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29:18 GMT, Jim McCulloch <mcculloch@mail.utexas.edu>
wrote:

>in article h79kvuk4knprf2ji7dujdnhb9sqjibk35u@4ax.com, vonroach at
>vonroach@earthlink.net wrote on 12/13/02 10:35 AM:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:49:32 GMT, Jeffrey E. Salzberg
>> <jeff.salzberg@verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thurmond's campaign, as any knows who has done even so much as a cursory
>>> study of the 1948 election, was based on the platform of "Segregation
>>> Forever".
>> 
>> What revised history text did you get that out of? The issue was whether to
>> retain the rather unpopular ex-Missouri Senator in the job he inherited from
>> FDR.  I sauppose you think Truman was a very popular President
>
>Well, according to everyone except yourself and the headline writer for the
>Chicago Tribune, Mr. Truman was the most popular presidential candidate in
>that election.
>
Jimbo resorts to putting words in others mouths. He apparently equates a poplar
President with a popular Candidate. Communication is difficult with that degree
of stupidity. As a point of fact, Truman was a moderately popular Senator (he
was one of the Senators who represented my area at the time.) for his
Investigating Committee during WW2. He became President on the death of FDR. He
barely got the nomination to continue in that office with some spectacular
oratory at the next democrat national convention from among others Alban Barkley
who became the VP nomination. They criss-crossed the country during the campaign
while Dewey acted like he had the election in the bag. Thurmond concentrated on
the South and Wallace, the communist candidate was egged at his campaign
speeches. I cast a sentimental vote for Truman since I had once been one of his
constituents. He won a close race. Then he alienated many of his supporters by
his domestic policies (such as socialized medicine and federal control of the
economy) and his UN `police action' and handling of the Korean war which ended
in a stalemate. He had become quite unpopular at the end of his term and though
he had only served one full term, elected not to seek another and picked Adlai
Stevenson as his choice for candidate to be smashed by the Eisenhower landslide.
Truman's sending of advisors to aid the Vietnamese Army against the rebels in
North Vietnam received little notice at the time. That policy continued under
Eisenhower and Kennedy, still without much public notice. The vast escalation
under LBJ and his blundering jackass political `generals' brought to the front
pages. Now if he can read, even Jimbo knows what happened, he was probably deep
in pharmaceutical recreation at the time.