Dewey Defeats Truman
[November 2, 2015] Well … that’s not exactly how the U.S. Presidential election turned out on this date in 1948. Three years earlier, Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was thrust into the presidency in 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Everyone was so sure Republican challenger Thomas Dewey of New York would win the 1948 election… Read More »