5Election1948

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:02:53 -0500

Thanks to post-war inflation and Republican attacks based on patriotism and anti-Communism, Truman entered the 1948 campaign well behind New York Governor Thomas Dewey. He had a life long habit of purposefully hitting the road when faced with a problem. When he was a county official in charge of building new courthouses, he traveled over a thousand miles visiting examples. In 1948, he refurbished FDR's railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and whistle-stopped across the country. He covered 22,000 miles and delivered almost 400 speeches. It worked.