The film opens in 1948 when Truman, far behind in the polls, launches his whistle-stop Presidential campaign against the Republicans and Thomas Dewey.
But however many people it may comprise, the black market clearly responds more to McMillan's whistle-stop campaigns than to the broad-based approaches favored by corporate America.
In 1948, Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, stopped at Spring Valley while touring the country in the last whistle-stop campaign by train.
His family said he played an important role in providing financial support for President Harry S. Truman's successful whistle-stop campaign for re-election in 1948.
Mr. López Obrador finished a grueling whistle-stop campaign Wednesday with a giant rally here in the central square.
Finally, his poor man's whistle-stop campaign is getting noticed.
He takes commercial flights and runs a no-frills whistle-stop campaign, traveling in vans, rather than private planes and helicopters, like his opponents.
Against this complacency, President Truman mounted his effective "Give 'em hell, Harry" whistle-stop campaign.
Indeed, he has been touring the country by car, giving speeches in every town along the route, like the old whistle-stop campaigns in the United States.
President Eisenhower used the car exclusively during the whistle-stop campaign in 1952.