1/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author)
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1/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author)
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Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years—was marked by contradictions. A politician of uncharacteristic honesty and principle, he was nevertheless dogged by secrets from his personal life. A believer in limited government, he pushed presidential power to its limits to combat a crippling depression, suppress labor unrest, and resist the forces of American imperialism. A headstrong executive who alienated Congress, political bosses, and even his own party, his stubbornness nevertheless became the key to his political appeal. The most successful Democratic politician of his era, he came to be remembered most fondly by Republicans.
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| 0:35.3 | This is CBS I On The World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:42.4 | This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelor. It is the spring of 1885. |
| 0:48.9 | The 22nd President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, former Governor of New York, |
| 0:54.3 | former Mayor Buffalo, former District Attorney of Eerie County, |
| 0:59.8 | Andrews the White House, Andrews the Chief Executive's Office with a vision of how we will conduct |
| 1:05.8 | himself. That is the beginning of the policy disputes that will reign over his first term, |
| 1:13.0 | and then with the in-between period, his second term. This is the only man to hold the office twice, |
| 1:20.4 | so effectively he is the 22nd and 24th President. I learn this from a wonderful new book, |
| 1:27.2 | Rich with Irony, a man of iron, the turbulent life in the improbable presidency of Grover |
| 1:34.6 | Cleveland. Troysendicus the author, a welcome Troy. I congratulate him and I begin with the policies |
| 1:41.1 | of spring of 1885. Troy, the President is faced with stories of silver and gold stories of |
| 1:50.3 | terra-for-form stories of civil service reform. It's all quite overwhelming for us now to imagine |
| 1:57.8 | how Congress is going to deal with these, but the Chief Executive had a style that was quite different |
| 2:03.4 | from other presidents before him. He had no experience in the federal city. He had no experience |
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