McGeorge Bundy Quotes
[Thomas] Dewey's view was that if he made no mistakes he would win So we sat around making sure he would make no mistakes. And I think we succeeded, but in fact that isn't the way it went. [Dewey lost]
the presidency against Harry Truman. Then a Republican campaign aide to Dewey
McGeorge Bundy, 1919-1996, Presidential Assistant for National Security (Democrat), Quoted in Mosley, Dulles, 1978
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Utley made the statement on election night of 1948 when HG Kaltenborn and must other pundits observed that Truman’s early lead was not big enough to overcome the results of the rural precincts which were slower to report and most assumed went heavily for Dewey. Utley, however, had conducted his own exit poll in the Chicago region and found that people who supported Dewey, when they got into the voting booth just could not support him. He appears to be the first journalist to call the election for Truman.
See {583344} for Dewey's famous reply.
Based on incomplete returns from the previous night, the newspaper staff concluded that Truman lost, and printed the "news." A famous picture shows Truman gleefully holding up the newspaper with its headline for all to see. Truman said on that occasion: "That ain't the way I heard it."
Dulles was slated to become Secretary of State when Dewey won the presidency. Dewey was the overwhelming favorite, yet Truman upset Dewey. Four years later, Dulles became Eisenhower's Secretary of State.
This was Dewey’s New York State Gubernatorial Campaign. It appears to be the first TV talkathon where a candidate took call in questions from the voters.
Diebold was the manufacturer of Computerized Voting Machines which had more than 130,000 in service by 2006 serving millions of voters. The University of Maryland and others had done studies on the Diebold machines and demonstrated that there were a number of different ways that the vote count could be tampered with by someone wishing to control the vote results. Although not illegal for a voting machine manufacturer with knowledge of how to rig their voting machines, this quotation was used by the many people who opposed computerized voting machines generically and many who suspected a strong partisan vote rigging capability to support their positions.
Dewey was the overwhelming favorite to defeat President Harry Truman who was very unpopular at the time. Everyone assumed that Dewey was packed and ready to leave for Washington.
When the 37-year-old Thomas E. Dewey announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination:
At the time of this statement neither major political party had a base large enough to win a Presidential election. The winner must get independent votes. However, much campaigning is done to motivate the base as without the base winning is also impossible.
Some things do not change in democratic politics.
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was an American academic who served as United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966. He was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. Despite his career as a foreign-policy intellectual, educator, and philanthropist, he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
