D'après A Turn in Career, 1950–1958. Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie And Joe, An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress – Swann Foundation), 2003 : I jumped in with both feet and campaigned for seven or eight months. I found myself stumping around up in these rural districts and my own background did hurt there. A farmer knows a farmer when he sees one. So when I was talking about their problems I was a very sincere candidate, but when they would ask me questions that had to do with foreign policy or national policy, obviously I was pretty far to the left of the mainstream up there. Again, I'm an old Truman Democrat, I'm not that far left, but by their lives I was pretty far left...
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Michaelis, David. ‘He Drew Great Mud’. The New York Times Sunday Book Review. 2 mars 2008
