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This "ovation" for Franklin Roosevelt and Term IV lasted 36 minutes. Later, a Florida woman delegate rose to nominate Virginia's Harry Byrd for President. There were boos. On the platform, the gavel rapped firmly, and able Convention
Scene V: John Touhy's. The caucuses ground on. Ed Kelly herded Illinois' 58 delegates out to Committeeman John Touhy's famed 27th Ward Club (across from the Stadium), where food & drink was free. Ed Kelly tried to get his 58 Illinois delegates to pledge for Truman...
"If the convention should . . . nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve. . . .
P.A.C.'s attempt to turn at least part of C.I.O.'s 5,000,000 members into politicians is something unique in American labor, and in American history. It is the first sophisticated, thoroughly professional entry of labor into politics. It is everything which all of labor's...
Much as he wanted to retire, the President had written, "If the Convention should . . . nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve. . . ." And, Mr. Roosevelt told Mr. Hannegan, he would not "run" in the ordinary political sense, "but if the people command...