1948 Campaign: Campaign Strategies

Below are descriptions of the documents held in the Campaign Strategies Folder. The hyperlink to the right will lead you to the actual document, and indicates how many pages that particular item is.

To read about how Truman used a little-known presidential prerogative to call Congress back into session, a political ploy that has been characterized as "brilliant manuever" see Truman Calls Back 80th Congress---part of the Chapter entitled: The Democrats Nominate a "Gone Goose"by Irwin Ross

1. Beginning Campaign Strategies, From: The Loneliest Campaign pages 21-27 By: Irwin Ross Copyright: 1968, used with permission (1 page)
2. Memo titled "Proposed Program of Action by President", not dated, from unspecified author to President Harry S. Truman. From the President's Secretary's File (4 pages)
3. Memo titled "Foot-Notes on the Opportunities of the White House in the Political Battles of 1948", not dated, from unspecified author to President Harry S. Truman. From the President's Secretary's File(3 pages)
4. Letter, dated May 11, 1948, from Raymond Pace Alexander, a Philadelphia lawyer to U.S. Senator (Pennsylvania) Frank Myers. From the Papers of J. Howard McGrath(6 pages )
5. Memo, dated July 19, 1948, from The Council of Economic Advisers to President Harry S. Truman regarding the government's anti-inflation program. From the President's Secretary's File(12 pages)
6. Memo, dated November 19, 1947, from Clark M. Clifford, Special Counsel to President Harry S. Truman, to President Harry S. Truman. From the Papers of Clark M. Clifford(43 pages)
7. Memo titled "The 1948 Campaign", dated August 17, 1948, from Clark M. Clifford, Special Counsel to President Harry S. Truman, to President Harry S. Truman. From the Papers of Clark M. Clifford (8 pages)
8. Campaign Recollection titled "Some Aspects of the Preparation of President Truman's Speeches for the 1948 Campaign", dated December 6, 1948, from Charles S. Murphy to unspecified recipient. From the papers of Charles Murphy(93 pages)
9. Recollections of the 1948 Campaign, dated August 1964, from William J. Bray to unspecified recipient. From the Papers of Clark M. Clifford(38 pages)
10. Letter, not dated, from U.S. Senator Francis J. Myers (Pennsylvania) to J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Committee. From the Papers of J. Howard McGrath(1 page)
11. Memo, dated September 17, 1948, from unspecified author to President Harry S. Truman. From the Papers of J. Howard McGrath(3 pages)
12. Analysis of the Southern Democratic Revolt, not dated, from unspecified author to unspecified recipient. From the President's Secretary's File(3 pages)
13. Analysis: The Politics of 1948, dated September 18, 1947, from James Rowe, Jr. to President Harry S. Truman. From the Papers of Kenneth Hechler(34 pages)