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ed. The convention ended on a note of unity. S.P. and Culpepper, who trad fought for years, stood on either side of the candidates for pictures. One of my agency men had dashed off a campaign song to the tune of “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” which we introduced. That night, the President was interviewed from the White House. He too made a big joke of the whole thing, deliberately mispronouncing our candidate’s name. Would he campaign across the country? Doubtful. He was much too busy Running the country. DyJ he predict reelection? Humbly he said that his future was in the hands of the people of this great nation. The First Lady was then interviewed in anew Dior creation. She laughingly remarked that she'd be delighted to show Mrs. - Mrs. Snapwhistle around t h e White House any time. I went home to bed. What a job I had taken on! Chapter IV Two weeks after the convention, the generally showed our candidate with only 25% of the vote as against the President’s 70% H The President called for a special meeting of the leaders of Britain and France and was shown on television with his arm around the Prime Minister. His percentage jumped to 72. although it all came from those who had said they were in, doubt. On Labor Day, the President received a tumultous ovation in Detroit from what was reported to the press as the biggest crowd in Detroit’s history. Snapwhistle was in Chicago. It rained. The crowd was encouraging, although most of it seemed to be from the press. Again he wouldn’t use the speech we had prepared for him. Instead Be bawled labor out for their two laced attitude concerning inflation. I didn’t even consult the 1 polls the next week. Our money was almost gone, and there w'asn’t any coming in. S.P., who had agreed to hit the campaign trail, suddenly went to Bermuda. Culpepper checked in at the hospital for “physical examinations”. We went by train and even automobile. We hit the big towns and the little ones. People turned out in goodly numbers, but we decided they came more out of curiosity than to support our candidate.

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In Cincinnati, he was invited to address the American Legion. He received a less than warm response when he said that he hoped there’d be no more wars and that there wouldn’t be any veterans in another generation. He refused to pose with a Legion cap. He said he wasn’t a Legionnaire because he never had had enough time to devote to it. I cancelled one of our poll services the next day. In Oklahoma, he refused to pose with the indians who offered him a war bonnet. He spilled the beans about his grandfather’s lack of contact with the indians. His speeches were non controversial though. They came from his heart. If you read them, they were literary masterpieces, and his midwestern twang seemed to augment them. When he finished speaking, there’d be a hush before the applause. Mary spoke too. She seemed to be loving meeting people. She had some cute stories about her South Dakota relatives, and the folks seemed to love them. She always clasped John's hand as he finished his speech. The contents of John’s speeches were often trite. The New York Times said he seemed to be for Cod, the Flag, and Motherhood, but seemed to be vague on the issues of the day. John retorted that he couldn’t think of any greater things to support. Then he’d launch into the reasons why he was content to be an American. He’d quote Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, and St. Paul. There were no loud screams and blasting of horns when he finished. Just a dignified applause. The press was at first critical.

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The New York Times came out for the President, as did the Herald Tribune. It looked as though the Elk Falls Chronicle w'as the only paper we could count on. However, the press discovered that our candidate could provide good copy for their readers. It turned out that he had been a minor league baseball player before the war. The Washington Senators posed with him when they came to Cleveland to play the Indians. It turned out that Mary made excellent toll house cookies. Young members of the Party everywhere started selling Mary’s cookies, and some money started to come in. On October 1, the polls showed a slight change. Snapwhistle had picked up four percentage points, and there were more who said they were undecided. The President’s reaction was immediate. In his press conference he said that these were always a few' £eo ple who wanted to shoot Santa Claus. By the middle of October, things had picked up slightly. We had a good break with Madison Square Garden. The President hadn’t thought he’d need to make a major New York City address and so there had been no arrangements made. We had quickly made those arrangements for our candidate. In Indiana, the polls showed Snapwhistle had gained. He made an excellent speech at Lafayette. He spoke at a DAR convention (against our advice). Mary charmed all the, delegates with an off the cuff commentary about the latest women’s fashions, never mentioning the First Lady, but implying that the ladies at the convention were dressed in better taste. We started to show improvement. We

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were pulling up. Then we had a setback. The Mayor of Omaha, who had been campaigning all over the place and had been aiming some pretty serious charges against the White House, suddenly got a call to come to visit with the President. Later the man who had been taking a great deal of the credit for discovering Snapwhistle, announced that he had accepted an appointment from the President to conduct a study of labor conditions in Scandanavia. He was to leave immediately and wouldn’t be back until late November. Strangely, however, Gallup’s latest poll showed Snapwhistle gaining considerable ground in Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. This was helped slightly by an off the cuff remark by ExPresident Truman that “'that damm Snapwhistle hasn’t said a word I can disagree with”. But the polls were taken a few days after the Mayor of Omaha had made his announcement. By the 20th of October, the New York Times had modified its earlier stand. They felt that Snapwhistle had many of the qualities of true statesmanship. About the same time, a San Francisco crowd turned out in amazing numbers to welcome our candidate in a pouring rain. Then the President made a remarkable decision. He decided that he must go out and see the people and allow them to see him. A trip to military installations was hastily conceived. The President was going to cinch this thing and nail down his expected landside election by his own magnetic personality. A strange thing happened then.

The First Lady was invited to go along. She said she couldn’t make the trip at this time. She had been, they said, quite ill. The President took off alone. Rumors started to spread about the First Lady, who only the day before her announcement had been seen shopping in New York. The President was, according to his own press, magnificent on his non-political appearances. Some did note, however, that Snapwhistle’s crowds seemed to be bigger. The polls showed us gaining, but still far behind. The Los Angeles Times came out for Snapwhistle. So did the Omaha World Herald. Senator Culpepper went home and started to work in earnest for “his man”. We got an additional boost from Pravda who pointed out that this man Snapwhistle talked of nothing else but an obsolete God and the outmoded ideals of Americanism. On the eve of election, Snapwhistle was in New York. His speech there was the best he’d made. We had all learned not to try and rewrite them. They were of the highest quality. Suddenly, after having heard thousands of his speeches, I realized that he had never once mentioned the President. In Los Angeles, two nights before the election, though, the President had plenty to say about Snapwhistle. He mentioned his name 30 times in the whole speech. As he appeared before the vast tele-

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vision audience, his handsome face was no longer handsome. His voice was no longer calm and smooth. As he rasped denunciation of our candidate, his mouth ctirled in a snarl. He denied nine charges which had never been made. He ridiculed South Dakota apd the “boobs who had given us this unknown who doesn’t even look like a President”. That night, the President flew back to Washington. His usual contagions grin was missing. He was tired. Chapter V On election day, John, Mary, and I were back in Elk Falls so that he could vote. People in Elk Falls seemed mighty proud of him. He knew everyone there, and we were (Continued on Page 6)

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