Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

Today is our fourth and final episode in Hangers On Week, our look at candidates who stuck around

in primary elections for reasons, usually noble, sometimes a little ignoble, but I should say for context that this is the first

and a bunch of these special series that we are planning this year that kind of track the rhythms

of an election cycle. So later in the spring and summer we're going to do a series on

veep stakes and then some stuff around the conventions. We're planning

October surprise week for the fall which I'm particularly excited about but we're

still planning it.

And so if listeners, any of you have ideas

for those kinds of stories or those series

that kind of help us understand the rhythms

of an election cycle, please let us know.

A great way to do that is by subscribing to the newsletter where we are going to be

posting some more behind the scenes information so you can subscribe to the newsletter at this day pod.com and be in touch.

Anyway, let's get into it. And today, our final hangar on, we will go back furthest in time to talk about this.

Please welcome to the Hangers on stage, Al Smith, serial candidate for president in the 1920s and 30s.

Someone whose repeated candidacy and hanging on tells us a lot about the politics of that era.

And also, of course of course please welcome as always

Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello there

hello Jody hey there so the one thing I think of when I think of that of Al Smith is that

Al Smith dinner which is a annual white tide dinner here at least in New York

...