Truman In Final Victory

Throughout the last half of my novel, Final Victory, there were a lot of interesting and captivating journalistic stories about Roosevelt’s triumphant last presidential campaign. Yet, what I found the most interesting was when reporters uncovered, and later brought back into the campaign, that Harry S. Truman, Roosevelt’s Vice President, had joined the KKK in the beginning of his campaign tour. Truman, unknowing of the Ku Klux Klan’s racist motives, put in an application to join the committee as an attempt to gain votes in his upcoming election. However, As soon as Truman had learned of the KKK’s racist intentions he had hastily withdrawn his application and desperately hoped nothing would come of this awful mistake. Nevertheless, the news got hold of the story and informed the public immediately, to which Truman publically apologized and asked for the forgiveness. After this quick fix, Truman had assumed that the problem was solved and that the situation was defused. However, later in his campaign, the …show more content…
This being said, the scandal was a great opportunity for newspapers, such as The Telegraph, to try and persuade the people and other government officials that Abbott was no longer suitable for the position of Prime Minister. Similar to Truman’s scandal, reporters tried to manipulate Abbott’s words into something far more sexist than it was intended to be in order to gain support to the anti-Abbott movement. Abbott adversaries took this opportunity to conduct polls to demonstrate approval ratings and create political cartoons that demonstrated Abbott’s sexist behavior (Postales). It was a journalistic strategy to get Abbott out of office, just like the media conducted in Truman’s KKK