Truman's quandary 76 years ago in 1948 against New York Gov. Thomas Dewey. The comparisons are undeniable and offer lessons for both today's president and the apparent Republican nominee ...

Before all the votes had been tallied, the Chicago Tribune printed an early edition with the banner headline: “Dewey beats Truman”. Clutching a copy of the Tribune, a smiling Truman later ...

The popular vote at that time stood: Truman - 19,860,759 Dewey - 18,488,038 Wallace - 1,028,015 ... Sean "Diddy" Combs beat his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, for having a relationship with ...

Dewey in 1948 embraced a distant, glide-path strategy against President Harry Truman (D), sidestepping controversy and offering tame platitudes such as the importance of national “unity.” ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 1948 (UPI) --Governor Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 32 years. It was perhaps the greatest upset in ...

Harry Truman’s 1948 stock has taken a strong upsurge, the FORTUNE Survey reported last week. In March, the FORTUNE poll showed that any one of four Republican candidates—Dewey, Stassen ...

In what was considered a major upset in the 1948 presidential election, Democratic President Harry Truman defeated Republican New York Governor Thomas Dewey and third-party candidates to win a ...