This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm Gaius with Germanicus whereby the Thames, it's cold, candles are lit,

for drinking the last of our wine before we go after the theater, sacrificing course but a conversation that Germanicus and I

enjoys about war time and elections. The United States has an election, the United Kingdom is likely

to have an election in this year. Canada is very likely to have an election soon enough.

There are other elections, just one just took place in Taiwan in the 21st century.

These elections in wartime have resonance with previous elections in wartime.

And there's a long list of the U.S. in wartime elections.

I wanted to go to to go to 1916 and 1942 as it in examples of what can happen

and what you worry about in wartime when your electioneering.

1916, Woodrow Wilson running for his second term against Charles Evans Hughes, who had

been a member of the Supreme Court, who hadn't been a governor of New York,

a governor by the way who had defeated Citizen Kane for the governorship.

In any event, we're looking at the story of

1916 he kept us out of war too proud to fight. Wilson was a preacher's son.

He was imperious, he was vain, he didn't explain himself, he was vindictive. All that he had a

magnificent speaking voice and before the age of amplifying voice he was able to project to large halls and he wrote all of his

own speeches and made pious remarks routinely and his pious remarks he kept us out of war too proud to fight. That's pure

Wilson. However, following the election, a very close election, came down to less than 3,000

votes out of California for the electoral close election

would draw Wilson talked about making peace at Christmas time

making peace at Christmas time

December of 1916 because the armies in Europe were

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