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TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Harry S. Truman"). Black and white, enlarged print, 7½ x 9½ in.
A SIGNED COPY OF THE PHOTO OF TRUMAN HOLDING ALOFT THE MOST FAMOUS WRONG CALL IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL JOURNALISM, with a clever inscription by Truman "TRUTH IN REVERSE! 3/26/56". It was a case of the wish being father to the thought (see the previous lot for the story of how the Tribune editors made the gaffe). Col. Robert McCormick hated Truman, the Democratic Party and all its works, and missed no opportunity to use the pages of the Tribune to bash them. "Mr. Truman," he said in one editorial, "has added his name to the long list of political crooks and incompetents who have regarded The Tribune as first among their foes" (Gies, The Colonel of Chicago, 226). Ironically, McCormick wasn't for Dewey either. He had supported Robert Taft in the GOP primaries, and only backed the New York governor in November 1948 as the lesser of two evils.
A SIGNED COPY OF THE PHOTO OF TRUMAN HOLDING ALOFT THE MOST FAMOUS WRONG CALL IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL JOURNALISM, with a clever inscription by Truman "TRUTH IN REVERSE! 3/26/56". It was a case of the wish being father to the thought (see the previous lot for the story of how the Tribune editors made the gaffe). Col. Robert McCormick hated Truman, the Democratic Party and all its works, and missed no opportunity to use the pages of the Tribune to bash them. "Mr. Truman," he said in one editorial, "has added his name to the long list of political crooks and incompetents who have regarded The Tribune as first among their foes" (Gies, The Colonel of Chicago, 226). Ironically, McCormick wasn't for Dewey either. He had supported Robert Taft in the GOP primaries, and only backed the New York governor in November 1948 as the lesser of two evils.