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TRUMAN, Harry S. Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman") to Justin G. Turner of Los Angeles, The White House, Washington, 12 November 1948. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, edges very slightly age-toned.
TRUMAN IN THE WAKE OF HIS UPSET 1948 ELECTION VICTORY. Truman expresses heartfelt gratitude "for the way you expressed confidence in my leadership..." Now that the election is won, "the Democratic Party must go foreward with progress and the support which you gave so wholeheartedly gives me strength and courage and renewed faith in the principles for which our party must always stand." It was widely believed that Truman--a "caretaker President"--had virtually no chance of winning in the 1948 election. Support on the left was undermined by the progressive candidate, Henry Wallace, while the Dixiecrats under Strom Thurmond were likely to siphon off many votes in the traditionally Democratic South. But Truman launched an energetic campaign, making some 300 impromptu speeches in a 30,000 mile, "whistle-stop" tour of the mid-west. On election day, defying the pollsters' near-universal predictions, Truman tallied 49 of the popular vote to Thomas Dewey's 45 (309 electoral votes to Dewey's meager 189).
The recipient of the present letter was a noted Lincoln collector and scholar, joint editor with Linda Levitt Turner of Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters.
TRUMAN IN THE WAKE OF HIS UPSET 1948 ELECTION VICTORY. Truman expresses heartfelt gratitude "for the way you expressed confidence in my leadership..." Now that the election is won, "the Democratic Party must go foreward with progress and the support which you gave so wholeheartedly gives me strength and courage and renewed faith in the principles for which our party must always stand." It was widely believed that Truman--a "caretaker President"--had virtually no chance of winning in the 1948 election. Support on the left was undermined by the progressive candidate, Henry Wallace, while the Dixiecrats under Strom Thurmond were likely to siphon off many votes in the traditionally Democratic South. But Truman launched an energetic campaign, making some 300 impromptu speeches in a 30,000 mile, "whistle-stop" tour of the mid-west. On election day, defying the pollsters' near-universal predictions, Truman tallied 49 of the popular vote to Thomas Dewey's 45 (309 electoral votes to Dewey's meager 189).
The recipient of the present letter was a noted Lincoln collector and scholar, joint editor with Linda Levitt Turner of Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters.