The Failure of the Progressive Party

With anti-communism thick in the air in 1948, the Progressive Party failed spectacularly. Florence Gogiel was slugged in the face when she stepped between him and the crowd at Frankfort. By the end of 1948, Truman would eke out an election victory over the Republican New York governor Thomas Dewey. And it was at this time, right after the Second World War, that the United Nations sprung into existence.