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In the chill, foggy morning the President, a navy cape thrown over his shoulder, stood on the rear platform of his car, waved to a crowd at Johnstown while a high-school band played and cheers thundered in vast wavelike surges against the train. Down the Conemaugh River the train...
On his way to Philadelphia, Willkie addressed 25,000 people before the Capitol at Harrisburg, made back-platform talks at Lancaster and Coatesville-where an egg hit the rear platform, a stick, and occasional boos, were flung at the rear car.
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk.
He had heard more boos, catcalls, razz-berries in more States than any other man since Herbert Hoover; he had argued with more hecklers than anyone but John Barrymore; he had had more assorted sizes and kinds of vegetables thrown at him than anyone since old Mississippi showboat days.
Ten Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm...