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HARRY S. TRUMAN, 1949: Truman's victory over Thomas E. Dewey was such a dramatic upset that the Democrats went all out to celebrate his second inauguration. One million people watched the parade, which included a mule-drawn float from the President's Missouri hometown and this train float from West Virginia, while countless others saw the whole thing on television for the first time.