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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

DRINKING WITH FDR

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

From his bamboo shaker to his views on prohibition, all about Franklin Roosevelt and drinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.8

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:08.9

Not much to it, is there?

0:11.0

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:15.7

Mmm, that is good.

0:17.8

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:20.6

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:23.6

Delicious.

0:28.5

There's a story that Franklin Roosevelt was talking with one of his older New York State political operators, Louis Howe, a guy who had come from the rumble and tumble of New York City politics,

0:41.1

and Franklin from New Hyde Park and a wealthy aristocratic family.

0:46.3

And Howe said to Roosevelt, you've got to relate to the working man.

0:52.0

And Franklin said, I do. I am a member of the Democratic Party. That's the party of the working man. And Franklin said, I do.

0:54.5

I'm a member of the Democratic Party.

0:56.4

That's the party of the common man.

0:59.5

And Hal said, what have you gotten common with the common man?

1:04.8

And Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass to his lips and took a sip. Drinking is not an ancillary subject when discussing Franklin Roosevelt,

1:42.3

because had it not been for the Great Depression and certainly

1:47.5

not for World War II as well, you might remember Franklin Roosevelt as the president

1:54.7

who ended prohibition. That was his major campaign issue in 1933. In fact, so many of the New Deal programs that we talked about, we talk about all the time,

2:07.9

were not part of the 1933 platform.

2:11.7

And although some were proposed, certainly like a kind of a work program was proposed at different times.

2:17.8

There was equal amount of talking on the 1932 campaign about conserving money in the budget as well

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