The President's News Conference
04/23/1947
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Why are the steel executives so bitter in their swanky clubs?
Minnesota gave the Democratic ticket the thing that counts--11 votes in the electoral college--and I needed them in 1948.
In 20 years the Democratic Party has learned how to use the powers of government to keep this chain reaction going.
Prosperity is a chain reaction.