by Thomas E. Brewton, ''The RealityCheck.org''. Retrieved August 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801534,00.html?promoid=googlep The Side Issues], '''[[Time magazine]]'', Nov. 13, 1944.</ref> but Roosevelt was the candidate of two other parties - the American Labor Party of the Communists <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History'']</ref> and the [[Liberal Party]] which consisted of technocrats, [[economic planners]] and American non-Stalinist Communists.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 2, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Two___The_White_House_G.htm ''The White House Goes into Business''], Flynn, 1948.</ref> In New York State Roosevelt won 47 electoral votes with a majority of 317,000. <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences''], Flynn, 1948,</ref> Of these 825,000 votes came from the American Labor Party dominated by the Communists, which had also nominated FDR and he had accepted, and the American Liberal Party. The same thing was true in Illinois, in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and other large industrial states, although the fact was not so obvious because the radicals operated inside the Democratic party where they could not be so easily identified. [[Strom Thurmond]] also supported FDR's decision to seek a fourth term. <ref>[http://www.kevinbaker.info/c_wtm.html What Trent Meant], Kevin Baker.</ref>
At the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago DNC Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to President Roosevelt's private railway car just before the July convention officially began. Roosevelt had decided to dump incumbent Vice-President [[Henry Wallace]]. Roosevelt, who was in ill-health, could not make the selection of [[Harry S. Truman]] as his successor until [[Sidney Hillman]] <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 2, Ch. 8[http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Shock_Troops.htm ''The Shock Troops of the Third New Deal''], Flynn, 1948.</ref>, Director of the Political Action Committee for the [[Congress on Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) approved it. Worried over dissension, Roosevelt told Hannegan: "Go on down there and nominate Truman before there's any more trouble. And clear everything with Sidney." <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791619,00.html "Clear everything with Sidney"], [[Time magazine]], Sep. 25, 1944.</ref>