The Pittsburgh Press (September 23, 1944)
Dewey slashes back at Wallace
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey slashed back yesterday at an inference by Vice President Henry A. Wallace that he would have to placate the isolationists to win the presidential election in November.
“It is too bad when people who know better don’t stick to the truth,” Governor Dewey told a press conference after a reporter had asked for comment on Mr. Wallace’s speech Thursday night in which the Vice President said isolationists would support the Republican ticket and that the GOP nominee would be forced to placate them “just as Harding placated the isolationists in 1921.”