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Thank you. Remember to hit Follow so you don't miss an episode. I'm John Boucher with David Patricia, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, and we go to the nominees

for the Republican Party in 1936 to face the president running for re-election, president weighed down by all these

opponents, and we need a Republican opponent because that will be the major party. And the first

Republican opponent in the president's mind is, I want to run against Hoover. Does the Republican

party want to run Hoover, David? Well, you might not want to relitigate 1929 and 1932 again.

So while there's a little bit of nostalgia for him and he gives a whiz-bang talk at the Republican National Convention, no.

The answer is absolutely not. We don't want to go there again.

And Hoover reluctantly backs away. I say reluctantly because he's making better speeches now.

You note that he's not stuck the way he was in 28, very hard, very difficult and what you say, slow-paced presentation.

He's making much furrier remarks, but we need to go to the other choice, at least early in the year.

William Borah, known as the Lion of Idaho, another character that you can't make up, David.

So much of this strikes me all these decades later as characters out of a novel, not out of history.

What do we need to know about Bora?

And did Roosevelt want to run against Bora?

Bora was a old line progressive, but the very definition of a maverick. He rarely supported a Republican

candidate for president. And often when he didn't, he just sit it out in terms of peak.

He was also, aside from being the lion of Idaho, he was the stallion of Boise and got around, shall we say.

And one of his conquest was Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, notice the Longworth there, where not only was she, he married she married but he she was married to the speaker

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