Ronnie Reagan - 1948 Was The LAST TIME Ray-Gun Told the TRUTH [View all]

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Ronald Reagan - then a liberal Democrat - campaigns on the radio for President Truman in 1948. He also supports Hubert Humphrey for Senator from Minnesota and opposes the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 which had been passed by the Republican congress over Truman's veto.

Dem President Gives Republicans HELL

clips of President Harry Truman addressing the 1948 convention. GOP lost the majority in both houses for over 46 years.

In 1948, no one gave Harry Truman much of a chance at winning re-election. But when the President stepped up to the convention podium at two o'clock in the morning, his vehement lambasting of the "do nothing" Republican congress was so dynamic, so unexpected, it reinvigorated his candidacy and established both the tone and the message for his entire campaign.

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