Surprising life. In 1964 tom dewey was at the white house. Lbj wanted to get him to chair a National Crime commission. In any event, he begged off of that, but he pointed out to lbj, he said, have you looked at the schedule of your convention in Atlantic City . He was meeting with Marvin Watson, who was the president s top aide, chief of staff in effect. Anyway, there was a day set aside as a tribute to president kennedy, and it was up front. And dewey pointed out that, you know, if this happens jackie will be there, rose and bobby and teddy and the whole family and people will cry and there will be this enormous emotional and before you know it, Bobby Kennedy will be your running mate whether you like it or not. And the story is the president got on the phone and called Marvin Watson and said move kennedy day from day one to day four. The result is that Hubert Humphrey became the running mate instead. Humphrey was in deweys debt until the day he died. And they were social friends. The
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 you forgive us of our sins, i pray that you would be with the class as they finish up this semester. So much busyness and activity with papers and finals and job interviews and just life. Father, i pray that you would look upon them with favor, that you just help them to finish this semester strong. In jesus name we pray, amen. All right. Well, today i want us to continue our look at the world war ii era. Today well be looking at the home front and specifically examining american politics in the early 1940s. And contrary to popular belief, word war ii did not mute politics as usual in the United States. Politicians continued to bicker, issues continued to be debated, and elections continued to be held. Now, the pivotal highlight of world war ii, of course, was the 1944 president ial election. 1944 was the first president ial election s
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
Wonderful authors to show off the fruits of their labor. So were happy to have you and all of them participating today. Just a couple of housekeeping matters. Will everyone please take of their Electronic Devices and turn them also that our presentation is not interrupted . Thank you. For those of you have not had a chance yet to see the new permanent exhibit that opened here last year this time of year, please come and find one of the Library Staff and we would give you one of these initial buttons we will get you into our exhibit galleries for free. Thank you to our colleagues. There are great supporters of our programs. Happy to have them back. Let me tell you a little bit about how the program will go this afternoon. Our speaker will speak for 35 minutes or so, and then we want the opportunity for a few minutes of questions paid after words are always galway to the store where he will be happy to sign the books you want to buy. So david kaiser taught history from 96 until 2013 at c
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