VOTING
[CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63] Though some might think the
delay in choosing a president was agonizing in the Bush-Gore battle, it pales in comparison to the 1876 battle between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. It seemed initially Tilden won the popular vote, and then the Electoral College vote, 184-165. But then, as in 2000, Florida’s votes became an issue, along with other contested votes from Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina. Congress investigated. Months
dragged on. In February of the next year, a congressional committee, after backroom deals and accusa- tions of fraud from both parties became an issue, decided to give the contested votes to Hayes. In March he was sworn in as president, just days after being declared the winner. One would think the advent of mass communications such as radio and the science of opinion polls would have simplified close nation- al elections, but in the case of the 1948 presidential race, they just muddied the waters. Incumbent President Harry S.
Truman was running against New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, and the president’s approval rating was low. This, combined with the predic- tions of usually reliable polls and analysts, portrayed Dewey’s win as a near-certainty — so certain the Chicago Daily Tribune, forced into a rushed production schedule because of a printers’ strike, ran an enormous banner headline made famous in an iconic photograph of a gleeful Truman holding the paper that proclaimed “Dewey Defeats Truman” — except, when both the popular and Electoral College votes were counted, he didn’t.
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— Latayne C. Scott is a freelance writer based in New Mexico. Her last feature for Military Officer was “Liv- ing Socially,” September 2016.
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Reunions
815th Engr Bn, May 17-19, 2017, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Contact:
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2nd Bn, 75th FA/3rd Bn, 20th FA, June 9-11, 2017, San Antonio. Contact: K. James, (580) 284-9719,
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Marine Corps HMM-265, May 22-26, 2017, San Francisco. Contacts: G. Cumpston, (704) 351-0193,
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HMM-165/VMM-165 (All Hands, All Years), June 8-11, 2017, Washington, D.C. Contacts:
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Navy USS Steinaker (DD/DDR-863), April 20-23, 2017, Nashville, Tenn. Contact: J. Evans, (254) 634-0602,
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USS Pawcatuck (AO-108), April 27-30, 2017, Washington, D.C. Contact: R. Mosley, 505 San Salvador Dr., North Augusta, SC 29841, (803) 279-0692, rmosley@comcast .net,
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USS Seawolf 20th Anniversary Reunion, July 18-22, 2017, Reno, Nev. Contact: M. Shine,
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Members of the Navigation Cadet class at Ellington AFB, Texas, 1952-53, May 2017, Albuquerque, N.M. Contact: C. Stearns,
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