President Harry S. Truman waves as he shakes the hand of Vice Presidential nominee Alben Barkley from the rear platform of the presidential campaign train. Margaret Truman also appears on the the platform. The president promised Senator Barkley that he would "fight like hell" to get elected, as they embark from Union Station in Washington, DC, on a 19-state election tour. From: Chicago Sun-Times.
First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and President Harry S. Truman smile from the rear platform of a train in Independence, Missouri. After voting in the mid-term election earlier that morning, the Trumans were leaving on a Baltimore & Ohio train from Independence to Washington, D.C.
E. Clifton Daniel's home movies showing his family, Margaret Truman, Clifton Truman Daniel, and William Wallace Daniel, as they visit the Truman and Wallace families in Independence and Grandview, MO; and also the Daniel family in North Carolina. Other people pictured include: former president Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Vietta Garr, May Wallace, George Wallace, Natalie Wallace, Frank Wallace, E. Clifton Daniel, Sr., and Elvah Daniel.
Merle Miler interviews former president Harry S. Truman. They discuss the 1948 campaign, Margaret and Bess's involvement in it, the whistle stop tour, inaccurate press coverage of it, watching the 1948 RNC, and the inaccurate polling. He also reviews the campaigns of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Jackson. Sound and picture.