Term. No president before him had ever had three inaugurations before, let alone four. The rules, of course, would be changed after fdr so no president could ever have more than two terms again. But when fdr went up for reelection in the election of 1944, november 1944, he was reelected in a landslide. Yes, he was seeking a fourth term, which was nuts, but he won 36 states. He got 432 electoral votes. His opponent didnt even crack 100 electoral votes. For the vast majority of the country, fdrs reelection was welcome, and his inauguration for a new term, which was planned for january 1945, that was something that the vast majority of people in this country, at least in concept, could celebrate. But it wasnt a great time for celebration, right . Given what was going on in the country, given what was going on in the long, long, agonizing war effort, right . Hundreds of thousands of american soldiers deployed. Millions of americans deployed over the course of the war. So many dead and inju
Many americans that could put a roof over your head or food on your table. And meanwhile, vaccinations are rolling out seemingly without a hitch. This video was taken in boston this morning. It is unclear just how Many Americans have been vaccinated so far, but health and Human Services secretary alex azar says that he will have the numbers in the coming days. And assures us that they are being tracked. But we need many, many more companieses of the vaccine that are currently being shipped out. And thankfully, this could soon happen. The Advisory Panel is set to meet tomorrow to discuss authorizing modernas vaccine. Testing czar gave a promising prediction about the process this morning along with an important warning. I am very confident that this vaccine will receive authorization and will add tens of millions of doses to the American Public within a short period of time. What people need to know, we are still at a dangerous and critical part of this pandemic and tens of thousands of
Reelection in the election of 1944, november 1944, he was reelected in a landslide. Yes, he was seeking a fourth term, which was nuts, but he won 36 states. He got 432 electoral votes. His opponent didnt even crack 100 electoral votes. For the vast majority of the country, therefore, fdrs reelection was welcome, and his inauguration for a new term, which is planned for january 1945, that was something that the vast majority of people in this country, at least in concept, could celebrate. But it wasnt a great time for celebration, right . Given what was going on in the country, given what was going on in the long, long, agonizing war effort, right . Hundreds of thousands of american soldiers deployed. Millions of americans deployed over the course of the war. So many dead and injured. It was no time for a party, right, back in washington, for rolling out the bunting and parades and all the usual inaugural hoopla. Not during such a period of deep, deep pain for the country and when we re
States that trump lost. How scared can we be . Republican senator mitt romney and Pete Buttigieg is joining us. Plus, act of war . The u. S. Scrambles to a sweeping cyber attack linked to russia. This is a major hack of our National Infrastructure sector. Reporter why is President Trump blaming someone other than putin . Ill speak with chris krebs. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington. What an outgoing president can do in the final month of an office we are getting something of a an idea. Flynns proposal to declare martial law. Trump is talking about giving the powers of a special counsel to Attorney Sidney Powell whose crackpot conspiracies have been laughed courtroom after courtroom. And trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani has been asking officials of the department of Homeland Security about seizing voting machines. This as the United States suffered what experts are describing as a modern day cyber equivalent of pearl harbor that President Trump is dismissing as media hype and defending r
At war. At that point we were years into what had been that long and excruciating global ordeal. And at the beginning of 1945, in january of 1945, the United States of america also needed to hold a president ial inauguration. President Franklin Roosevelt had been reelected to a fourth term. No president before him had ever had three inaugurations before, let alone four. The rules, of course, would be changed after fdr so no president could ever have more than two terms again. But when fdr went up for reelection in the election of 1944, november 1944, he was reelected in a landslide. Yes, he was seeking a fourth term, which was nuts, but he won 36 states. He got 432 electoral votes. His opponent didnt even contract 100 electoral votes. For the vast majority of the country, fdrs reelection was welcome, and his inauguration for a new term, which was planned for january 1945, that was something that the vast majority of people in this country, at least in concept, could celebrate. But it w