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Heiskell:

In the magazine.

Q:

Yes.

Heiskell:

Oh, yes.

Q:

Any recollections of that?

Heiskell:

Nothing but embarrassment.

Q:

They called Dewey “the next President” or something [laughs]--

Heiskell:

Yes.

Q:

Any recollections of--

Heiskell:

Then we did the Democratic one, too! Because I can remember very well that we--Truman was chugging through the countryside just during the convention, making speeches off the back of the train. And I remember we went to the extraordinary trouble then--it sounds like nothing now--of actually having a camera wherever he stopped, and photographing him, and then either flying the film in or, when we could, stitching together a network so that we could show him live. It was really quite exciting, because we would interrupt whatever was going on with Truman coming closer and closer and closer to the convention place.

We did the election night, too. There we had the good sense to





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