2 Because it was time for another presidential election,
3 Which happens about every four years,
4 Whether anyone is paying attention or not,
5 Although the Yanks were paying attention this time,
6 Because they didn't know what they were going to do when they walked into a voting booth and saw,
7 For the first time in their lives,
8 aThat Roosevelt's name wasn't on the ballot.
9 Some of the Yanks thought that the Democrats had been in office long enough,
10 bBecause everybody was equal by now, weren't they,
11 cAnd just how average should a president be anyway?
12 dOn the other hand, there were Yanks who thought that Truman was pretty darned honest and great for being so average,
13 eAnd just look at how decisive he was.
14 So Truman got on a ftrain,
15 And rode through every small town in the whole country,
16 gTo explain to the people why he should be elected president,
17 Which had to do with the fact that his opponent was a no-good New York sharpie,
18 hWho was a lawyer,
19 iAnd articulate,
20 And so far above average,
21 jThat he couldn't be trusted,
22 kBy any right-thinking Yank.
CHAPTER 1301 Truman's great and statesmanlike lcampaign succeeded brilliantly,
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2 Even if some of the newspapers forgot to look at the returns before they wrote their article about how Truman had lost,
3 Which he hadn't,
4 Because he was what the Yanks wanted,
5 And what they got,
6 Which is the American Way,
7 And always turns out for the best in the end,
8 Especially when you get a really great, honest, decisive president like mwhat's-his-name.
CHAPTER 1311 As it happened, Truman got a lot of opportunities to show everybody how decisive he was,
2 Like with the nMcCarthy thing,
3 oWhich was about how the communists had infiltrated the U.S. government before anybody knew the communists were an evil totalitarian state,
4 pAnd wanted to own everybody and everything,
5 Including the Yanks.
6 The way the Yanks found out about all the communists who had infiltrated the government was a scandal about somebody named qAlger Hiss,
7 Who was a high-level Yank diplomat,
8 And according to rWhittaker Chambers, a scommunist spy too,
9 Which caused a tremendous ruckus,
10 Because tChambers had evidence,
11 Including the papers Hiss had stolen from the state department,
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