Thomas Edmund Dewey, 47th Governor of New York, and Candidate for the Republican Party during the 1948 Presidential Election stood on the edge of greatness. "You know that your future is still ahead of you," he mused, staring at his chiselled distinguished features in his shaving mirror. He smiled to himself thinking about how crushing a defeat he was about to inflict upon Harry S Truman and the Democrats. GO TO PAGE 3 ->