Episode 311: Px3 Special Presentation: When America Worked
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Bill Scher closes the final week of Px3 before Justin's return from Europe with a showcase of his pilot episode of When America Worked.
The almost-completely forgotten Secretary of State for FDR and Truman, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. did more than anyone to create the United Nations. He was derided in his time as an intellectual lightweight who lacked diplomatic experience. But he navigated a thicket of international disputes to maintain consensus between FDR, Churchill, Stalin and a litany of smaller nations to forge the final U.N. Charter. If not for an incredible series of events that thrusted Stettinius into the Secretary of State post, the United Nations may not exist today.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Will Harris, Dustin Campbell, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, And Craig. Politics, Hello, this is your guest host Bill Share for this Friday edition of Politics, Politics, Politics. |
| 0:46.4 | Our illustrious host, Justin Robert Young has kindly had all of his guest hosts offer a podcast of their own for the Friday |
| 0:57.0 | Edition and I am the host of the History Podcast when America worked and I say that word host very loosely because |
| 1:06.1 | I have produced a grand total of one episode of this podcast as you will hear these |
| 1:11.8 | are not throwaway podcast. This is a these are deep scripted |
| 1:16.8 | history dives. They are laborious endeavors and they aim to tell stories that I honestly don't think you would find anywhere else because the theme of the show is great things that were achieved by pragmatic means so it's not there's not huge |
| 1:36.5 | heepings of murder mysteries and sex scandals and and the like although this one |
| 1:40.9 | coming up does have a little bit of a sex scandal in it. |
| 1:43.6 | But on the whole, I think there are stories that really help tell the story of America and they |
| 1:50.4 | don't get told. And so if you like this one and you want me to do more of them, |
| 1:55.0 | ping me on Twitter at Bill's share, |
| 1:58.0 | shame me, guilt me, ask me how I can I shower you with money |
| 2:02.0 | and do more of these and I will oblige. |
| 2:05.0 | I'm sitting on lots of stories that I haven't told yet. |
| 2:08.0 | So without any further ado, we don't need more intro to the intro. |
| 2:12.0 | Here is episode number one of When America |
| 2:16.1 | worked. |
| 2:19.1 | Welcome to When America Worked True Tales of America's Pragmatist Heroes. |
| 2:31.6 | I'm your host Bill Share and for this debut episode we are going to talk about the person who I would |
| 2:41.9 | argue represents the greatest distance between most good done for the world |
| 2:51.0 | and least amount of public recognition. |
| 2:55.0 | And that person is Edward R. Stetinus Jr. |
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