Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa? | The 19th Century
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
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šļø 22 April 2015
ā±ļø 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate's bite-sized podcast about presidential campaign history, chief political correspondent John Dickerson tells the salacious tale of the love child that nearly cost Grover Cleveland the 1884 election.
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| 0:27.0 | Welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of Presidential Campaign Curiosities. I'm John Dickerson. Mama, where's my Pa? That's the sound heard round the town during the 1884 |
| 0:51.4 | presidential campaign when Grover Cleveland was involved in one of the greatest |
| 0:56.4 | perhaps the greatest sex scandal in presidential election history. |
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| 1:44.0 | It's October 1884 and we're in Buffalo, New York |
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