How to Rank The Presidents, with Susan Swain and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
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🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an airwave media podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I hope the skies will lighten up by and by. I have never seen a day since I consented to drift with events that I have not cursed myself. |
| 0:16.3 | Yes, Grover Cleveland was not feeling delighted about his second non-consecutive term |
| 0:21.8 | for the presidency of the United States. |
| 0:24.9 | We learn about that in history. |
| 0:26.8 | He's the only president to have a non-consecutive term, meaning someone else. |
| 0:31.4 | Benjamin Harrison was president in between his two one terms of the presidency. |
| 0:37.0 | What we don't learn about often is that that second term was a really rough ride and it started really before he even got |
| 0:46.1 | into office high unemployment business failures all as he gave his speech. |
| 0:52.0 | The existence of immense aggregated all as he gave his speech. |
| 0:53.0 | The existence of immense aggregations of kindred enterprises |
| 0:57.0 | and combinations of business interests formed |
| 1:00.0 | for the purposes of limiting production and fixing prices is inconsistent with the fair field |
| 1:05.7 | which ought to be open to every independent activity. |
| 1:10.6 | As he's saying these words and not feeling great about the situation that he's in, he also had noticed something on the roof of his mouth, which didn't seem to be normal. A hard spot and when his wife Francis Cleveland would investigate she would call it a peculiar |
| 1:50.0 | lesion. He ignored it. He had a lot of work to do, keeping a country financially |
| 1:57.8 | sound, appointing a lot of people to office in those first months, but it was keeping |
| 2:02.4 | him up at night and after a few months the size |
| 2:06.2 | of this lesion had grown to a noticeable extent. |
| 2:09.8 | But what to do? |
| 2:10.8 | President was a calming figure, a news story about his health might cause |
| 2:17.1 | further panic. It's not just like, okay, because it's why the President's health would, yeah yeah even today that's something like that might cause a some one day change in financial markets it's not just that he's a supporter of hard money, a very vocal supporter. |
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