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1948
Newspaper mistakenly declares Dewey president
On this day in 1948, the Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and
mistakenly declares New York Governor Thomas Dewey the winner of
his presidential race with incumbent Harry S. Truman in a
front-page headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman."
Many of America's major newspapers had predicted a Dewey victory
early on in the campaign. A New York Times article editorialized
that "if Truman is nominated, he will be forced to wage the
loneliest campaign in recent history." Perhaps not surprisingly
then, Truman chose not to use the press as a vehicle for getting
his message across. Instead, in July 1948, he embarked on an
ambitious 22,000-mile "whistle stop" railroad and automobile
campaign tour. At every destination, Truman asked crowds to help
him keep his job as president. His eventual success in the
election of 1948 has been largely attributed to this direct
interaction with the public and his appeal to the common voters
as the political "underdog." At the end of one of his campaign
speeches, voices in the crowd could be heard yelling "Give `em
Hell, Harry!" It didn't take long for the phrase to catch on and
become Truman's unofficial campaign slogan.
In a now famous photograph snapped in the early morning hours
after the election, a beaming and bemused Truman is shown holding
aloft the Chicago Tribune issue that had wrongly predicted his
political downfall. Truman defeated Dewey by 114 electoral votes.
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