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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

"By a Swinging Door - Presidential Assistants and Aides"

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

From the man who answered T.R.'s phone and maybe saved his life, to the secret "Sphinx" around Woodrow Wilson, to Coolidge's surprise enforcer. We look at all sorts of Presidential assistants and aides, both official ones and non-official ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As a classic moment when Wendell Wilkie, FDR's opponent in 1940, attacks Hopkins and says

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that he's a close advisor and he's acting like a president, he's making the decisions, he lives

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in the White House. He is undue influence. Roosevelt responds in a campaign speech, stating,

1:30.6

Well, here's what I think of Harry Hopkins. We had a man who worked for a dollar a year in

1:36.3

Washington, who, with the enemy at our gate, kept this country going. He sleeps in a little room

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