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...Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
...comment was not lost on National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who had long been aware that his candidate was most effective when speaking off the cuff. He renewed an old campaign to get the President to take a long, leisurely transcontinental train trip...
Sincere Heart. The President already knew that the California situation was even more precarious. At a Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath had ended his speech by asserting that Truman was trying his best "to do what he thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt is calling to him from heaven to perform . . . His heart is just as sincere, his purposes are fought for just as "courageously, his stand is for the right. .. Can we ask for more than this in a leadership?" The strongly pro-Eisenhower crowd, clanking silverware on the wineglasses, roared back...
...fact, Senator J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Chairman, was wrathful. "This device will fool no one," he said. Harry Truman, however, did not feel so bad. He met Joe that night at the Gridiron Dinner and said to him: "You can have him, I don't want...
Harry Truman returned to Washington this week, to find that Democratic bosses had been burning the wires to a worried J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. McGrath hastened to the President. He came out of the conference to announce flatly: "If nominated by the convention [Mr. Truman] will accept...