The life of Wendell Willkie. I stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your costs and that your cause and that of democracy. [applause] i expect the republicans Wendell Willkie ran for president in 1940. These are some damages some images of him on the campaign trail. We are here with David Willkie. I want you to introduce the cabinet audiences of some of the fervor. Your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat Franklin Delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. Was seeking a third term. Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac. Grew up in elwood. When they married, this was the place they generally call home. In the family, my great great grandfather had lost his shirt during the depression. Instead of giving his father in law a handout, when the willkie and bought a farm land. He asked his fatherinlaw if he would manage it. How much time did he spend no ques
Now, i will start off with a word of warning. When i compiled all the information i wanted to share with you all this evening the first time i went through it and timed it i spoke for an hour and a half. So i hope yall are comfortable. We might be here for a while. Last year when josie was compiling this topics for this year she called me into her Office One Day and pitched me this idea as she mentioned and she ended up when i told her i probably did know somebody interested in this topic and she said when i think about it theres only one person that comes immediately to mind, and i said im so touched. Those are exactly the type of characters every girl longs to be associated with so before you can really start looking at the outlaw gangs civil war spun off you kind of have to take a flip back and see kind of understand the guerilla warfare that was going on during the during the civil war to kind of understand how that same mindset continued on after the war and kind of manifested its
and by the time the smoke clears tuesday night, we could have the first undisputed result in the democratic race. our new cbs battleground tracker reveals a fight for the top spot between bernie sanders, who won new hampshire in 2016, and pete buttigieg, the surprise candidate of 2020. and all this as president trump takes the stage in manchester for a rally with supporters. ed o keefe reports for us tonight from the granite state. reporter: candidates made their final arguments today at at least 30 events across new hampshire. the whole country is not only looking at new hampshire, in fact, the whole world. i know how seriously new hampshire voters take the responsibility. reporter: senator bernie sanders and former mayor pete buttigieg are drawing the biggest crowds and targeting each other over fund-raising. unlike other campaigns, we don t have billionaires pouring in huge amounts of money. reporter: and healthcare. are we going to pay for it in the form of
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Communities. In 1856 when this house was built, ritchies idea was to make this house as solid as he possibly could. Its kind of like a fort in that sense. The house has become known as somebodys port, whether you are on one side or another. That will result in ritchies arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. And managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. When he comes back to topeka in the spring of 1857, the free soil people have gained control of the territorial legislature. They begin to institute, rather than pro slavery legislation, they enact a free soil anti slavery legislation. That pretty well seals the deal that kansas is ultimately going to be a free state rather than a pro slavery state. The result is pretty clear. The free people have become a