国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 11月3日 06時51分
In 1948, on a train called the Presidential Special, Harry Truman took to the rails to salvage a campaign many people thought he could not win. Undeterred, Truman told his staff, “I’m going to fight hard. I’m going to give them hell.” Truman’s “whistle stop” campaign provided great material for editorial cartoonists—as this cartoon from the Washington Star shows.
Truman was following the example first set by William Jennings Bryan. In 1896 Bryan popularized the novel idea that candidates could appear widely to voters on their own behalf. Bryan traveled 18,000 miles by train to give over 600 speeches to about five million people. The technique came to be seen as a way to reach what Theodore White, a keen observer of political history, called “the people who count most” because they were so often ignored by campaigns and by pollsters.
For 35 days in September and October, Truman traveled over 31,000 miles delivering 356 speeches to perhaps 15 million people. (Swipe to see one page from his dizzying campaign schedule). Refusing to be “coached,” Truman declined to use “gimmicks” preferring to be “simple and straightforward.” He insisted on having material specific to each town where they stopped, and he never gave the same remarks twice in a single day—even days on which he gave more than a dozen speeches. His speechwriters noted Truman was “rousingly successful” in these off-the-cuff speeches because he got “his heart” into them.
Even though they sometimes had to pass the hat to raise money to get the train to the next stop, Truman believed the tour would pay off. He knew he was working his staff “almost to death” but, in the end, he reflected “[m]y one-man crusade took effect. The people responded with increasing enthusiasm as the day of the election neared. I never doubted that they would vote for me.”
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