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Next day the lackshirt President was deluged with shirts. Eddie had managed to get a half dozen, and "some red hot bow ties" to boot. So had Henry Bradley, a St. Joseph newspaper publisher. At "noon Kansas City's Jesters Club gave him three more-two the wrong size. Grinning, the President gave the Jesters some outside political talk: "When I hear the Republicans saying I'm doing all right, I know damn well I'm doing wrong. . . ." Two hours later Alf Landon visited him, came out praising him to the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri's Favorite Son | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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