Video: 'American Experience Truman 2' (Sept. 17, 1948, at 50:15)

(Friday, September 17, 1948, 11:06 a.m. EDT; during the campaign of the United States presidential election, 1948) — An exuberant, confident U.S. President Harry S. Truman pulled out of Washington Union Station and headed west on his first major extended campaign tour today, declaring his intention to “fight hard” and ‘give ’em hell” in a back-breaking, no-quarter contest for the presidency between now and the general election on Nov. 2, 1948.