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Welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of Campaign Curiosities. I'm John Dickerson, host to

Face the Nation. Our whistle stop today is a Monday night in the spring of 1948. We're at the

Wordman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. overlooking Rock Creek Park.

A group of liberal advisors of President Harry S. Truman are attending their regular Monday meeting.

The leader is Clark Clifford, the President's counselor, and they're gathered in the

apartment of Jack Ewing, who is once the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The subject over their steak dinner is President Truman's re-election.

It isn't going to happen if somebody doesn't put a plan together.

The sentiment is conveyed in a memo that Clifford has been reading and re-reading for months.

It's written by a Washington lawyer named James Rowe.

And it's a battle plan for Truman's re-election. Rowe writes, I don't know whether Mr. Truman

would be elected if everything in this memo were done to perfection.

But I do know that if no attempt is made to do the major suggestions, us Democrats ain't

got a chance in hell.

The Monday night group, as they are called, this group meeting at the Wardman Park

was discussing how to implement a key first provision of that political memo how to

get Truman out west that's where he needed to shore up some support where the

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