Professor Michael Davis looks at the 1944 president ial election between democrat franklin roosevelt, seeking an unprecedented fourth term, and his republican challenger, thomas dewey. With the u. S. And its allies approaching victory in world war ii, president roosevelt had a relatively easy victory over thomas dewey, who mainly campaigned against new deal programs and for smaller government. President roosevelt would die in office six months after being reelected, and Vice President harry truman became the 33rd president of the United States. Liberty university is in lynchburg, virginia. This class is just under an hour. All right, well, we will get started. And lets go ahead and open with a word of prayer and then well see what we can get into today. Heavenly father, thank you for today. Thank you for this class. Thank you for your love and mercy. I pray that youd forgive us of our sins. I pray that you would be with the class as they finish up this semester. So much busyness and ac
Gov. Thomas e. Dewey which is over california on his Campaign Around the nation. Striking at communist elements in government, the gop leader draws big audiences. The next step is portland, oregon with mrs. Dewey by his side. He makes another stirring bid he has at least one ardent supporter. Those are some of the regions finest specimens. We will know soon. In november is just around the corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. The chief executive get a president. He writes to the home of his own his old friend cactus aand its a war record warm welcome on route to. He visits the alamo. The historic shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd to greet the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star states 23 electoral votes. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam rayburn, former soup former speaker of the house. In fort worth, to try to bring the southern vote back into line. Dewey defeats truman, the famous headline from the
Well, theres been about five decades of votes have mostly repeat that most of us getting for a textbook until now. Finally we have got a book. We been waiting five decades for this because all of the books this one goes back and looks at the cases. The author, no introduction can do it justice, but i have to say a couple things. He wrote a book in 1968 called the future of conservatives and were the fourth defending final chapter was the rise of reagan, two years into his first term as governor, 12 years away from being president. Hes been ahead of the curve for a very long time and continues to be so. He interviewed one of maccarthy suspects indicating as a reporter in the 50s. I got to do a little piece of this. They manage to get one of the files on the part the suspect from fbi and was wheeled out in a shopping cart. These and gentlemen, its hard to forget anybody wheeled in a shopping cart. That is a visual that stays with you. He is a College Curriculum as it should be rolled up
Granddaughter in law and of course daughter president next 10. We are pleased to have everyone here. We are going to put the numbers up on the screen. 202 5853885 in eastern and central time zone. 5853886 in the mountain and pacific time zones. And now, the eisenhower said mr. Smith were talking. You hear a lot about presentation. Weve got people lined up here and im going to give everyone a chance. I get my questions out of the way really fast. Jean edward smith, did president eisenhower like campaigning . Certainly not in 1952. In 1952, this was a new job that he had to learn. But he learned it effectively ended in 1956, he campaigned quite a bit. Is somebody that recreated for me and i tried we tried to capture that in going home to glory. The ambience around the eisenhower office, people enjoying a quiet morning over coffee, and in that period rusty brown and dr. Mccann pick up a lot of things that Dwight Eisenhower did conversationally, and one comment they made that stayed with m
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