On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Sorry, I was wrong on this. But Truman was a candidate in 1952.
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> Doug -- I voted in 1952 -- and I voted for Stevenson.
Did you read the Wikipedia text? HST got beaten in NH and quit.
> Truman's main opponent was populist Tennessee Senator Estes
> Kefauver, who had chaired a nationally televised investigation of
> organized crime in 1951 and was known as a crusader against crime
> and corruption. The Gallup poll of February 15 showed Truman's
> weakness: nationally Truman was the choice of only 36% of
> Democrats, compared with 21% for Kefauver. Among independent
> voters, however, Truman had only 18% while Kefauver led with 36%.
> In the New Hampshire primary Kefauver upset Truman, winning 19,800
> votes to Truman's 15,927 and capturing all eight delegates.
> Kefauver graciously said that he did not consider his victory "a
> repudiation of Administration policies, but a desire...for new
> ideas and personalities." Stung by this setback, Truman soon
> announced that he would not seek re-election (however, Truman
> insisted in his memoirs that he had decided not to run for re-
> election well before his defeat by Kefauver).