Horace Greeley

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome citation needed
0:24.4	podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend
0:28.8	we're experts is this is the internet and that's how it works now. I'm Heath and I'll be hosting this
0:33.5	discussion about American politics from the 1800s. And of course I'm joined by a panel of white guys.
0:39.6	They're not all landowners. We're gonna do the best we can we have Cecil Noah I'm and Eli yeah I'm so
0:46.3	white taxis hail me at this point so I can't argue based on the size alone yeah I'd say I'm panel sized.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	All right, let's get right into it.
0:57.0	Noah, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event are we going to be talking about today?
1:02.0	Today we're going to be talking about Horace Greeley.
1:05.0	All right, and how did you pick Horace Greeley?
1:08.0	Well, so because as we barrel towards the inevitable renomination of Donald Trump for the
1:12.8	fucking presidency. I want to reassure everyone with a historical example
1:17.4	that proves that you can lose a presidential election so hard it kills.
1:21.9	Here's the hope and.
1:23.0	Good answer.
1:24.0	Well, okay.
1:26.0	Yeah.
1:28.0	I like starting on a high note.
1:30.0	Right?
1:31.0	Yeah.
1:32.0	Happy start. So who was Boris, really?
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