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Reminiscing in Chicago last week about his 1948 election victory (which is one of the things he likes to do most), Harry Truman dropped a gleeful footnotelet to the campaign...
...Roosevelt's Press Conference Association last week voted itself into limbo. It bundled up its files to send to the Roosevelt Memorial Library in Hyde Park, where the girls hoped they would make a footnotelet to history. With just $65 left in their treasury, they voted to buy a flossy scroll for Mrs. R.: "To Eleanor Roosevelt . . . the first President's wife whose far-reaching activities for human good warranted regular press conferences. . . ." Then, just when Washington newshens had about given up hope of ever perching in the White House again, they received their first diplomatic recognition from...
Last week a U.S. Senator from Kentucky assured his name of a footnotelet in the pages of history. He challenged, at a moment of historic decision, the basic Allied strategy of the war, and received an unprecedented reply delivered in person by the Prime Minister of Great Brittain before a joint session of the U.S. Congress...