The Fourth Quote from Jill Lepore's 'The Lie Factory: How politics became a business'
“Whitaker and Baxter went to Washington and persuaded a hundred congressmen to let them read their constituent mail. At the start of the campaign, Whitaker reported, mail from voters 'was running four and half to one in favor' of Truman’s plan [about national health care]. Whitaker and Baxter went to work. 'Nine months later it was running four to one against.'
-- from Jill Lepore's New Yorker article, ”The Lie Factory: How politics became a business,“ on the rise and ascendancy of Clem Whitaker, Leone Baxter, Campaigns, Inc. and politcal consulting. Among the charges against Truman's plan was the notion that it was ”socialized medicine."
Tags: Clem Whitaker, Leone Baxter, Campaigns, Inc., Jill Lepore, New Yorker, Harry Truman, Political Consulting, Health Care
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