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    "title": "Unsent Draft Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Adlai Stevenson",
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        "Ruml, Beardsley, 1894-1960",
        "Mitchell, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1903-1974",
        "Dever, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1903-1958",
        "Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963",
        "Wyatt, Wilson W. (Wilson Watkins), 1905-",
        "Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965",
        "Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956",
        "Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986",
        "McKinney, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1904-1974",
        "Political parties",
        "Political leadership",
        "Presidential campaign, 1952",
        "Vice-Presidents",
        "Political conventions",
        "Presidential candidates"
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    "ocrText": "TRUMAN\nDear Governor:-\nB.S. - \" ARGHIVESAND RECORDS SERVICE\" LIBERT\nGOVERNMENT\nI have come to the coa-\nclusion that you are em -\nfarraseed by having the Presi-\ndeat of the United States in\nyour corner in this campaign\nsilent and stay in Wash-\nTherefore I shall reenain\nington natil Nor. H.\nyou understand that had\ndecided in 1949 that I Gould\nnot he a candidate for this\ngreates at office in the history\nof the world again.\nto the Blain House at my request\nI n January 1952 you came\nand me discussed successor\nto the in the WhiteHouse.\nyou were coy and backward\nadvancing various reasons why\nyou had to he the candidate\nfor governor of Illinois, your\ndisorce, your belief that you did\nnot hase the qualifications etc.\nagain a month later me\nhad the sacke sort ofa discus-\nsion.\nWhen the time for the Den\nocratic Consention approached\nIsent the Chairman of the\nDemocratic Committee to see\nyou Frank W.Kinney mas the\nablect chairman the Decocratic\nCommittee had produced in\nmy recollection. you stadled\nand gase him the same aa-\nsure you had given me.\nThen I called the Vice Pres-\nident to the White House along\nwith In M.Kinney anda mum-\nbee of other atte national polites\nand told him that me gould\nsupport him R for the nomi-\nnation for President.\nyou of couse Know the rest\nof the story. Barkley Recause dis.\ncouraged and the th drew He\nwas intending to lease Chicago\na whipped man. I called m.\nM.Kinney and Backleys prevell\nspeech was the result.\nOn Friday morning you called\nme aud toldrue that your\nfriends- - achong them the\nPosemor of Indiana, who\nnlican ticket manted to noch-\nis nour riming on the Rep-\ninate you. you manted to know\nif I would he em farrassed\nby that proceedure. Hold you\nthat I would he Righly pleased.\nThat a Hernoon I foarded a\nplane and landed in Chicago\nin the middle of the afternoon.\nThe Consention ha d recessed\nwith no noraination. Kefauser\nhadsome 360 notes you had\n330 odd and fasorite soul had\nthe falance.\nIsento one of my aides to see\nIn. Harriman, one to SEe gos.\nDeser of Mast, one to see the\nMinnesota and the thichign\ndelegations with instructions\nto switch to you. Harriman\nand gor. Deser smitched, the am -\netures didn it matel later\nyou were nominated and\nyou speech. made a grand acceptance\nThen you proceeded to heak\nup the Democratic Cora -\nmitter, which I had spent\nyears in organizing, you called\nin the former mayor of Louis- -\nville as your personal chair -\nman and fined Th. Kianey, the\nfest chairman of the National\nCommittee in my recollection.\nSince the consention you\nhave treated the Presidentas\na liability. your hought in\nBeardsley Rural as finance chair\nman who is in the Wilson Wyatt\nclass as an acastmer. you\nhad your Chicago bayer made\nchannaa of the national Coca-\nmittee. He is a fine man but\nhas no political contacts and\nis completely ignored by both\nyou and Wyatt\nI have tried to make it\nplain to you that I want you\nelected- in fact I want you to\nisn this time more than I\nwanted to isin in 1948.\nBut I can't stand smit after\nsunt by you and In Wyah\nWhen the President after much\nthought Chow a politicalporit\nof siew, which may he hereath\nhigh lesel consideration ) ask,\nthe Democratic Candidate to\ncome to a strategy compreace\nand is coldly turned down\nand refered to a crackpot,\nit seems to the that the\nDemocratic Caadidate is a-\nlose associating with the\nlourly President of the United\nStates.\nIshall go to the didication\nof the Hungry House Dara in\nMontana, make a putlic\nspeech. get in a\nplane and come back to\nWashington and stay there\nyou and Wilson can now\nrun your carapaign without\ninterperance or advice.\nSincerely\nBARRY as NATIONAL TOUMAN LIBERTY\nTHE"
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