the latest scuttlebutt 'round the interweb is the fear that this election might turn out like the one in 1948. Had Dewey won our family history might have taken a distinctive turn. My great-grandmother was an early feminist, suffragette and all around incredible woman, widowed at a young age raising her daughter with her 2 sisters they ran the store as well as the newspaper in the little Missouri town of Martinsburg. Gran was very involved in politics and a frequent delegate for the Republican Party, nominating Dewey, Eisenhower & Nixon. Family lore has always been that if Dewey had been elected my grandfather would have become Surgeon General. What an interesting twist that would have been.
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