1. In the nation and in the foreign service: Harry S. Truman: "I don't want to be president" / by Edward A. Harris
George S. Messersmith: "the diplomacy of intelligence" / by Graham H. Stuart
Joseph Clark Grew: "decade of infamy" / by Charles E. Martin
Wendell Wilkie: "the party's embarrassing conscience" / by Wilfred E. Binkley
John G. Winant: "interpreter of American life" / by Montell Ogdon
Henry Agard Wallace: "people are more important than pigs" / by Paul Sifton
2. In Congress: Joseph C. O'Mahoney: "his answer to the enigma" / by Julian Snow
Gerald P. Nye: "essentially negative" / by J.L. Sayre
Sam Rayburn: "he first tries persuasion" / by Floyd M. Riddick
Robert L. Doughton: "hard work with no vacations" / by Robert S. Rankon
J. William Fulbright: "hell-bent on his objective" / by Max Hall
Adolph J. Sabath: "dean of the house" / by John R. Beal
Hamilton Fish: "crusading isolationist" / by Richard Nelson
Sol Bloom: "supersalesman of patriotism" / by Hugh A. Bone
Alben W. Barkley: "reservoir of energy" / by J.B. Shannon
Claude D. Pepper: "champion of the belligerent democracy" / by Francis P. Locke
Theodore G. Bilbo: "shibboleths for statesmanship" / by Roman J. Zorn
Joseph H. Ball: "a liberal dose of candor" / by Nat S. Finney
Tom Connally: "one of the Senate gallery's favorites" / by Otis Miller
Jerry Voorhis: "what is right rather than what is expedient" / by Claudius O. Johnson
Ellison Durant Smith: "a politician from the old South" / by Leonard Niel Plummer
3. In city and in state: Harold Edward Stassen: "candidate in absentia" / by Robert Thompson
Thomas Edmund Dewey: "political resiliency" / by S. Burton Heath
John W. Bricker: "personally honest" / by Murray Seasongood
Robert S. Kerr: "realist in politics" / by Otis Sullivan
Earl Warren: "so-called nonpartisan" / by Thomas S. Barclay
Frank Hague: "belligerent suspicion" / by Dayton David McKean
4. Interpretation: The voter's politician: "the voter's other self" / by J.T. Salter.