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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Lower the microphones. I cant. I have to have them up where i can see. Im sorry that the microphones are in your way but they have to be where they are because i have to be able to see what im doing, as im always able to see what im doing. [ applause ] i cant tell you how very much i appreciate the honor which youve just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. [ applause ] i accept the nomination. I want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague senator barkley of kentucky. Hes a great man and a great public servant. Senator barkley and i will win this election and make these republicans like it. Dont you forget that. Well do that because they are wrong and were right, and ill prove it to you in just a few minutes. This convention met to express the will and reaffirm the beliefs of the Democratic Party. ....
[ cheers and applause ] thank you, thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. Please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Im sorry that the microphones are in the way. They have to be where they are because i have to see what im doing. As i always am able to see what im doing. [ cheers and applause ] i cant tell you how very much i appreciate the honor, which you just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. [ cheers and applause ] i accept the nomination. [ cheers and applause ] and i want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague, senator barkley of kentucky. Hes a great man and a great public servant. Senator barkley and i will win this election and these republicans like it, dont you forget that. [ cheers and applause ] we will that because they are wrong and we are right, and i will prove it to you in just a few minutes. [ cheers and applause ] this convention met to express the will and reaffirm the ....
Know scott does, too, with the letters and diaries in private journals so when i found these letters, i realized they had become friends in the early 30s. An odd couple. Teddy marched around everywhere during wrestling and boxing. Weighing between 250 350. Not doing much wrestling or boxing at that time but they liked each other. Opposites almost attractive. So he brings him into his cabinet and becomes the most important person in his cabinet. They want him to run against taft in a Brutal Campaign and because there are two republicans running so then he runs on the bull moose thirdparty Campaign Opening the door for the democratic win so the heartbreak was much greater because of friendship was stronger i love writing about these emotional things it was more than a straight linear story. Woodrow wilson came into the picture and then went back to progressivism. Wilson went ....
So leaders had a much Better Direct sense of what the people actually thought. You can see a lot of polling data in this and in flushing out exactly what it was americans thought. I will focus a lot on Public Opinion and then we will talk about policy as a reflection of Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany, and they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the two plus years of this debate, nothing that happened really change fundamentally, those two points of view. There will be change ....
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont ....