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...broke in a vast, excited, ugly roar. Temporary Chairman Alben Barkley pounded his gavel. He ordered a voice vote on Vaughn's report. Although it had been agreed in committee not to have a roll call, Northern delegates shouted into their floor microphones, demanding one. But they could not be heard. The floor mikes were dead. Chairman Barkley asked for ayes and nays. Deadpan, he listened to the response and ruled that the majority report had carried. The Mississippi delegation was accredited...
...almost 2 a.m. when, accompanied by Alben Barkley, he made his entrance into the hall. The delegates stood and cheered. Harry Truman laughed with the crowd as a sudden swarm of pigeons flew around him (see below), then adjusted the microphones upward. The photographers howled; the raised microphones obscured their view of Harry. "I am sorry that [they] are in your way," said the President, "but they have to be where they are because I've got to be able to see what I'm doing-as I always am able to see what I am doing...
After the 30-minute ovation for Keynoter Alben Barkley on opening night, there was no longer any question about the nominee for Vice President. Rugged old Alben Barkley was beloved by many, trusted by most, disliked by none...
Harry Truman, who had preferred Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, made no further effort to buck the convention's wishes. Called by National Chairman Howard McGrath, Truman said: "I love him like a brother... If the convention wants Alben, of course he is acceptable...
...Alben Barkley had not always felt that close to Harry Truman. In the last three years, as Truman's Senate leader, he was often caught flatfooted by Administration proposals of which he had had no previous notice. On one such occasion he angrily told a White House aide: "This is like playing catcher in a night ball game. I not only am not getting the signals, but someone actually turns out the lights when the ball is tossed...