benjamin ross. thank you. me -- whooss told asked that question? say it again. >> president truman -- >> thank you. i had a brain problem there. weekend, the following tuesday was the election, and in 1948, it was a foregone conclusion that tom is doing dewey was- thomas going to win the election. surprise, surprise, monday morning -- it is not a surprise until wednesday morning -- on monday morning, the federal government begins to investigate as they thought thomas dewey would investigate. morning, they get. their investigation started with the idea that tom is doing -- t dewey is going to be president. benjamin writes they have to do a 180. truman was, for all of his thoughts, more of a friend to ewey wasem thomas dwe going to be. america's steel and wire was still going to reign supreme. they were going to be king kong, so does the. -- so to speak. they weren't going to speak softly, but they were going to carry a big stick. mr. truman, as far as i know, never made a statement. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions