Parades, Protests and Politics at the Chicago Historical Society
Thus, many things combined to convince me that I had to make a fight for it - the threat being posed by Russian imperialist Communism; the misguided clamor for appeasement in the name of peace as advocated by the so-called Wallace Progressives; the large bloc of traditional Republican isolationists; and the coalition of southern Democrates and northern Republicans who hoped to compel the repeal of a great deal of New Deal legislation and a return to the lassiez-faire doctrine of pre-depression day. These forces had to be defeated or our country would be thrown back to the hard times of reaction. Truman. Source: Why He Ran in '48
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Angus Campbell, Gerald Gurin and Warren Miller. NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES, 1952: PRE-/POST-ELECTION STUDY [dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor], 1999.
