During the 2008 presidential campaign, the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination were "an African American man and a former first lady" The former being Obama and the latter being Clinton.
When President Truman took a hard line against striking workers in the years immediately following World War II, he:
"had little understanding of the plight of laborers in the post-war years."
During the first months of his administration, he became involved in a struggle between coal miners and railroad workers. It took several meetings, and fierce arguments, to get them to agree, and end the strike.
Answer: They got the news from the newspaper
