The man who didnt get it, charles hughes, Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1915. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he would have been elected how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Hes the one you could write novels about. Charles evans hughes who is on the Supreme Court and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. Fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like god, end quote. 1916 footage of charles hughes, that years president ial nominee campaigned soon after the Republican National convention
That they felt and the fact is that we cant continue to fake an economy theres no amount of money that we can just throw it people to make this go away the stimulus on the 1st time around was probably needed for the individuals i dont think that we should have seen him at the court in corporate welfare that went to Big Industries the 1st time around but certainly we dont need another go up and thats the democrats are pushing for republicans largely agree right what about you i mean i agree in many ways with having here but what is far is working people i mean the very rich actually got richer during all of this they got they got welfare of their welfare that they didnt meet here but if you look at the 1st round it was the middle class and working people who were largely ignored or just temporarily given injection what is your thoughts on this i mean should i im not interested in bailing out local governments or bailing out states when they anything like that im interested in helping yo
I stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. And as your nominee i expect to conduct by crusading an aggressive, fighting campaign. The republicans in we want willkie, Wendell Willkie ran for president in 1940. And as we watch some of the images of him on the campaign trail were joined here in rushville, indiana with David Willkie. I want you to introduce our audience to some of the fervor were seeing from these Iconic Images of the 1940 campaign that really surrounded your grandfather as he ran for president and tried to defeat Franklin Dell know roosevelt who was seeking a third term. What an exciting time in the country. Here wed come out of entering into the great depression, the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration, roosevelt was president , right at the height of his power and that opened up a time for a dark horse can
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There may be one better, but it is extra ordinary and i started working on this book. I started developing it. I wrote for other books in between. Those were sort of to keep bread on the table so to speak. I just became haunted by the story and tried to get deeper and deeper into it and discover who the people were, who saved the country. For me it was a revelatory moment because i go to libraries and places and book sales and try to look up some of the things i write about in this book like the louisiana maneuvers, for example, and found almost nothing. I had to really dig and go through a lot of archives and primary source materials, newspapers, daily newspapers from obscure places like small towns in louisiana and such. That is how i put it together, i came up with this to get it right. This is like telling how sausages are made, but i had two pretty full rewrites, had two copy edits, and a lot of people key people, the premier general in the air force academy , a man who had been i