Afterthoughts

As usual, the election meant many things to many people. A few:

P: House Speaker Sam Rayburn: ". . . Under the circumstances ... a good endorsement of the Democratic Administration."

P: New York Times: ". . . The national trend ... is indisputably Republican."

P: Lame Duck Senator Millard Tydings: "I can't explain the defeat; I suppose . . .the national Administration was not popular."

P: Lame Duck Senator Claude Pepper: Has to be interpreted as a gain for the conservative and isolationist forces in the country."

P: New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The net effect of the election on the conduct of American foreign policy is likely to be almost negligible."

P: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: "I am beginning to think that, as a political force, labor is somewhat uncertain as a backer."

P: C.I.O. Political Action Director Jack Kroll: "I can't put my finger on it. Ap parently there was an undercurrent -- a trend across the country -- that nobody could detect in advance."

P: Tammany Chieftain Carmine G. DeSapio: "I guess we picked the wrong man."

P: G.O.P. Candidate Joseph Talbot (defeated by Senator Brien McMahon, chair man, Atomic Energy Committee) : "You just can't fight the atomic bomb."

P: Governor Thomas E. Dewey: ". . . We had a landslide, and that I say is notice by the people of New York that we want the right to develop our waterpower at the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers."

P: Governor Earl Warren (asked the significance of his million-vote lead over Jimmy Roosevelt): "It means I won."

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