, TRUIIAN There are mighty few of us who wouldn't like to sit in on that meeting at the White House, which is in prospect - Trwnan-E1senhower. ( Today, the President invited the General to a (J conference - to discuss urgent problems of government that w 11 confront Ike, when he bec011es President) Those proble■a I!!:! \there would b~ of the ut~st illportance, but,A.,_ht~a special fascination tr011 the hlllllln angle - after all the bitterness between the two· in the caapa1gn. It would be, of course, much more than a 111eting or · rivals - who belabored each other 1n the heat of elect1oneer1111. The 0011110n experience of lite ahowa that antagonists can be tbe ~ •~t ra~orous when they_Are forll8r friends~ who have fallen out. Wilch was the status of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower - when H.S.T. went all out, assailing and belittling the Republican candidate. But Harry Tru.man is a veteran of pol i tical wars, and knows how to take a lost game - like a pro. He fought for TRUMAN - 2 Adlai Stevenson even harder than he ever fought for himself in election campaigning, and that Eisenhower landslide must have been to Harry Truman a staggering disappointment. But, the first thing today, he sent an immediate message asking the Republican victor to a conference at the White House -- a coference to demonst7rate American unity to the entire world. President Truman said today that the most 1.anediate thing on which the President-elect should be tntonned, 1a - the budget. That comes up as soon as the new Congress aaeembles - the bristling complexities of federal finance. Then, overshadowing everything - foreign affairs. Harry Trwian promtaea to support the new Eisenhower Administration: aaye he 1 11 cooperate in every way. Today the General said he would send a representative to discuss the budget. The invitation to himself, is in abeyance. If the General accepts - what will be the personal feelings of the two former friends? Will si.a there be considerate courtesy to each other, formal with protocol? TRUMAN - 3 Or - will the cordiality return? Well, General ~is enhower is an old soldier, and knows 1he way of composing differences - Army team work. My guess would be - they'd forgive and forget. And - go back to the same old friendship - to a degree. Both are naturally, warm, friendly men. Today, even before issuing the invitation to the White ffouae, President Truman offered General Ike the use ot thli presidential plane INDEPENDENCE - for that Eisenhower trip to Korea. Which was dra•tic - considering the way the Pre•tdent had aaaailed and ridiculed the General's campaign statement that, 1r elected, he would , go on an inspection tour to Korea. Eisenhower thanks the President, but says - any Air Force plane will do. EISBIH~ - K e rd s tha I e v K rea, a r a ten-day res at A s rgta - w .ere he . lay soae golf. Yea terday we ha a re . or· ugus that the General, 1t elected, would start on his K rean rt t orrow. That was wrong - naaing the day. Arter the grueling ordeal ot one ot the \.wi1orous \ aoa~t I II II and strenuous or political caapatgns, the PNl1dent-elect reels he needs a ten day rest - and is surely .Latitled to it. General Eisenhower wtll occ1.1py a cottage belongi:nl to the aoat taaoua golfer ot all tille - Bobby Jones. Which ■1.illt / hia 1nap1re 14 » I J to cut down his score a bit. !he cottage 1a " neatly sandwiched tn between the golf c0t1rse and a lake with plenty or tish. Oene"l Ike ts known to be quite a tiaheman. So, when not teeing ott, he ■ay catch a bass or rout. MANIE FOLLOW EISENHOWER-KOREA ~ The one most pleased with the rest~s Mamie Eisenhower - who shared the long, hard ordeal of those weeks of whistle stopping.~e General's wife was beside him, day after day, as he made those innumerable appearances on the rear platform of the campaign train, talking to whistle atop cro"'.1•) TOday Na■ie said - she enjoyed the caapaign, but ahe 1 s glad to get back to her family.( At ugusta she'll be with her mother, her da~ghter-in-law, and three grandchildren. ,~}• ~-~ wbn•t go with the General to Korea. "lt never entered 111 head," ahe said tOday. Mamte wtll stay on with the taaily in Augusta.) I hope I don't see■ forward 1n calltng the First-Lady-of-the-Land-elect by her first name. Today she noted that, on those campaign tours, the crowds hailed her as - "Mamie." She says she enjoyed it, and adds: "I hope they keep calli:ng me Mamie. " Well, for all those years, at many an Amy post, they were - "Mamie and Ike. " CABIIE'l' wire The news" brings inevit a ble surmises - about a Cabinet for the new admin1strat1on. A ' ashington dispatch starts out by naming Governor Dewey of New York - saying that he stands at the top ot the 11st of potential c b1net members. Many have thought all along that Tom Dewey would make a superb &ttomey General - on the job or guardtng against corruption in govermaent. But the Washington dispatch states: "Dewey, who played a major role 1ln Eisenhower's c&11paign, was reported 11nder consideration tor appotnt•nt aa Secretary of State or Secretary or Defense.~e •~r;;,_adds the dispatch, "be gtYen h1S cho i ce ot e t thff post." \ Gonrnor Dewey has repeatedly stated that he doesn't want any Job in Waahtngton, but the l gueas is that he 11tght be persuaded to change hts 111nd. ) He was the ftrst top-ranking Republican to come out tor the -JI. ~ - ••Utt nomination of General Eisenhower, anct,,._ ~.,!.""i ..... - ~~~ep~~~~t ~ \~dm~s~~ " One inevitable sunnise is that Republican National CABINET - 2 General. It's an old hite H o us e custom to g iv e that post to the campaign manager - as witness the case of Jim Farley, when ~ ~~ W ' {R ~~ ~ ~~- rran1c1in D. Roosevelt was elected. 7 ,But Summerfield says . he wants to go . back to his automobile business in Michigan. President-elect Eisenhower has a wealth o f material troa · which to choose Cabinet members. The Washington dispatch naaea Governor Sheru.n Adams or l e w Hampshire, General lke•s caapaign chtef-ot-staff and close advtaer. Saying - Shel'lllln AdBIII could have nearly any post he might select. Governor fart Warren of C iJ. l1r'orn1a - cited as a posa1ble choic tor Attomey Qeneral. sanator Prank Carlson or Kansas - a poastb1e Secretary of Agriculture. Senator Ives of lew York - Secretary ot Labor, if he wants the job. ~enator Henry Cabot l,odge ot Naaaachuaetts, who was - defeated for reelection by a ~ - ~ d 4 W l f ' I ~ . narrow margin ~ cfftne ~ The list goes on and on - with a dozen prominent names. STEVENSON Today at Springfield, Illinois, Adlai tevenson was - the Governor again. He took his defeat with a smiling acceptance, had a brief chat with newsmen this morning - and then turned to lta■ tasks of the r111nois state government. The news dispatch says: "He was Jaunty, smiling, relaxed. He looked like a man relieved of a crushing burden, looking toward the future, not the past." B-~t Adlai Stevenson is ·sure to have one regret - he loses not only the presidential race, but also his poat as Governor of Illinois. H said he always liked, and wanted, another term. One reason he was so reluctant to accept the presidential nomination was - that he wanted to run for Governor again. But they drafted him. He submitted to political duty - and, seeking a larger prize, lost the lesser one, which he really preferred. STEVENSON H<JtE TO · flf One small election return drifting in today has a moumful, ironical sound - at least for the defeated party. Here are the figures for Governor Stevenson•s home co•unity - tbe farm town of Half Day, Illinois. The Governor bas a faI'III nearby, and cast his own vote at Half D a y. You'd think that he would run strongly there, but Half Day voted oneihouaand and suty-n1ne tor Oeneral Ike. Three hundred and forty-seven - tor Adlai Stevenson. Ike - by three to one. Re■1nda us how Franklin · Delano Roosevelt~!':~t-!•, so often, to carry his own home town - Hyde Park. But there wa1 a difference - P.D.R. used to sweep the rest or the country. Follow UI.YIII In Micbiaan, the final fiiurea show that B1puulican Charle•!. Potter baa defeated Deaocrat Blair Mood7 for the Senate. Thoae who followed th• Chicaau Deaocratic latioaal CoaYentioa u a radio or TY •ill recall 10047 aa th• one who led the fiiht to ■ at• the Southerner• take a L o 7alt7 Pled&•· So now, int.be lepublicaa laa4-ali4e, loody baa been defeate4ell ax The aar1in ia narrow, a•• ••- fLthr•• hundred and ••••nt7-1ix Yotea.B•---• ••1 challan11 the fiiur••• and deaand a reoouat. re•• the la be fro■ .S.aa •••• - wb~• it'• With ninet7 thr•• prec act ■ Tb• oal7 \•ntuc 1'• aa■ter ■ountaina, •~ublican area, have been 1ttin& ia down• eadily. RfflJRNS The election returns? They are not yet complete. Various districts here and there still to be heard from. fe latest figures in, show Eisenhower, thirty-one million, five hundred au thousand. Stevenson, t w enty-five million, tour hundred and eleven thousand. A majority of nearly six million and it may run over the six million mark by the time the in. As of right now, the electoral vote is as follows: 0hirty-eight states give the General four hundred a thirty-one. Stevenson ahead 1n ten states, with one humred electoral votes) But Kentucky may go. And he might still lose Tennessee, where the Democratic margin 1s mighty thin, seven hundred and seventy-six votes with ninety-three precincts still to be heard from.(The only states that Adlai carries are in the South. So far t hree lost down in Dixieland: Florida, Texas.) South Carolina stays Democrati c by a sltm majority . Th e whol p ic t ur e uh wing - that G e neral Ike did crack the Soli d S ou h. RBTURMS - 2 ~e Republicans win control of Congress. ) The 1nd1cat1orefor the Senate are - Democrats forty-seven, Republicans forty-eight. In the House of Representatives, control fell to the G.O.P. this afternoon, and a late count shows them to have - two hundred and thirty-three! Democrats - two hundred and eleven. It was believed most unlikely that they could carry \ a maJor1ty or Congress, even if General Eisenhower was elected. sf.he congresstonal victory la the final measure of the landslide) JIIOTHBR-SON Congress, for the first time, ~ a s a mother-son combination. In the Republican sweep in Ohio, Mrs. Frances Bolton was reelected to Congress - her seventh term. In Nineteen Porty, Mrs. Bolton was chosen in the twenty-Second District, to till the vacancy left by the death of her husband. She baa been in Congress ever since. Yeat , ro : y her son, Oliver Bolton, was elected to Congress from the Ohio Eleventh District. So now he'll Join his moth~~ in Washington - the first ■other-son c011b1nat1on tba Congress has ever known. Today, at C.B.S., there were ex resaions of respect for - Univac. The •mechanical brain• which, on television and radio last night - gave prediction• baaed on election returns. Sets of figures, as they came in, were fed into the contraption. The mechanical brain, thereupon, aaking a calculation of the probabilitie• - and coming up with a forecast. At first, we ■ ade tun ot Univac - which started in by giving a calculation that was pure nonsense. But then it was found - that the nu■ijera tea into that electronic mind had been garbled. A buaan -- e.,c.,. ~ ~ -r:. .,.o failure J'C •ad-- ni vac ~ a , mechanical brain stora. Thereafter, the figures put into the thinkin1 aacbine were correct. But that didn't seem to improve matters. Because, at about nine thirty, the buaan brains were still believing - that the election was in doubt. But Univ c made the prediction - Eisenhower landslide. And came up with odds - one hundred to one for an Eisenhower victory. le all felt - it was too early to tell. I thought Univac was havin g another mechanical brain 1tor ■. lhen Walter Cronkite informed the T.V. audience that Univac said it was an Eisenhower landslide, with odds of one hundred to one on the General, his tone of •oice was just a l ittle patronizing - even a shade scornful. The huaan brain ~ ~ taking the auperior attitude ,.&!&If the mechanical brain. But Uni•ac ••• correct. Meaning, of courae, that the calculation of the probabilitiea ••• ■ atbe■ atical, cold blooded. lhile hu■an beings, l ike ourselves, were distracted by Yarious eaotional factors - caution, recollection how forecasters had gone wron1 in the past. POLLSTERS FOLLOW MECHAIICAL BRAIM /n) o \ it;, LJ"'..~ The pollsters,were wrong again - although their A figures were correct. This time their calculations tndlcated an Eisenhower victory - though not necessarily that lP~dslide. But, having gone so badly wrong four years ago, they didn't dare 9 accept the evidence they collected, although tt was the right evidence. One after another, the pollsters publiahad ~ lead tiguNB abowtng O nerai Ikehthroughout the nation. Previously, they would have stood by the figures. But this ttnie they lelaoa woal4 1•• ••J hedged, said the outcome was uncerta1~. /the mechantcal brain was better - or braver.