Democratic Primaries

If recollection serves, the Truman Committee looked into waste in weapons procurement during the war.

Wallace went on to run as an independent in '48, his campaign dwindling to the point it was virtually an association of CPUSA fellow travelers. Several adults of my acquaintance when I was young told me they had meant to vote for him, right up to entering the booth, where they switched to casting a ballot for Mr. Truman. The presence of the Dixiecrat Thurmond concentrated the mind wonderfully for sensible folk on the left. That was a four-way race: nothing like it has ever been seen since.


"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."