Thanks for being with us tonight.

It is very, very good to have you here.

So it was Labor Day weekend, 1936.

It was hot, it was around 90 degrees,

and a hundred thousand people turned out to see him.

He himself said from the stage, from the podium,

at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000,

but the police actually said it was bigger.

The police said it was a hundred thousand people.

And again, this was in 1936.

So if you want to adjust that for inflation,

like it was a dollar amount,

if you want to adjust that to account for

how big the whole population of the country was at the time compared to now,

a hundred thousand people then,

compared to the overall size of the country,

that would translate today to a crowd of like 250, 260,000 people,

which is a really big crowd.

Particularly since the person they were all there to see

was just some guy with a radio show.

Have you ever heard of a politician named William Lemke?

It's okay if you haven't.

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