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Wrote Columnist Walter Lippmann: "But for Mr. Truman's campaign tour, it would never have been possible to prove to the country how small a part Mr. Truman actually plays in the great office which he holds . . . Mr. Truman may get reports on what is happen...
Friends of Harry Truman, Lippmann recalled, resented preconvention complaints that Mr. Truman was not equal to the presidency of the U.S. "A complaint of that kind is almost impossible to prove," observed Lippmann, "as long as the President remains in Washington within the majestic structure of his office . . . But now the country has Mr. Truman's own estimate of how necessary it is for him to exercise the functions of the presidency...
...Three committees of U.S. newsmen are trying to solve the murder. None is fully convinced, as the U.S. State Department seems to be, that Greek Communists killed Polk. One committee, headed by Columnist Walter Lippmann and Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer, hopes to raise $50,000 to keep the investigation going...
...Galluses. The jumbled roaring which came through the loudspeakers boomed so loudly and with such a passionate rise & fall of voice that it was applauded as if it were an announcement of the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Of the men & women who made purely partisan speeches, Columnist Lippmann wrote: "Never did they admit that they had ever been wrong, less than wise, less than the only true defenders of the faith, or that one trace of humility or magnanimity could be allowed to mitigate their absolute self-righteousness...
...being out in front also brought embarrassing moments. A growing number of Republicans, joined by several newspaper columnists, were suggesting that the strongest Republican ticket would be Arthur Vandenberg for President and Tom Dewey for Vice President. Columnist Walter Lippmann wrote that Dewey is "entirely competent to be President," but "a man who refused the Vice Presidency under these circumstances would write himself down as too ambitious, as lacking in humility and a sense of duty and, therefore, as not really qualified to be President...