The election of 1952 took place against the backdrop of the stalemate in the Korean War, which had been running since 1950 without any conclusion. President Harry S. Truman had been specifically exempted from the terms of the 22nd Amendment, but he chose not to run again. This left the ...
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Events It’s a celebration of another exciting Chicago International Film Festival as the Closing Night presentation goes political with “The Front Runner,” the story of presidential candidate Gary Hart, when he looked like a shoe-in to win the 1988 election until a little “Monkey Business”...