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…And last, according to Ferrell, 'the presidential campaign of 1948 offered a single lesson that no candidate in subsequent years should have forgotten. That a candidate must himself be sincere; he must not merely possess some vision for what the country needs but believe in it and consider himself a- to use a seventeenth-century phrase well understood in Puritan theology- chosen instrument for that grand purpose. In that single respect Truman made a superb candidate.'15