NEW DEAL GENIUS: 6/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.
1936 SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE
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| 0:40.0 | for the Republican Party in 1936 to face the president running for re-election. |
| 0:45.9 | The president weighed down by all these opponents and we need a Republican opponent |
| 0:50.8 | because that will be the major party and the first Republican opponent because that will be the major party. |
| 0:53.0 | And the first Republican opponent in the president's mind is, |
| 0:56.0 | I want to run against Hoover. |
| 0:58.0 | Does the Republican Party want to run Hoover, David? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, you might not want to re-litigate 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. |
| 1:16.5 | No, the answer is is absolutely not. We don't want to go there again. |
| 1:22.0 | And Hoover reluctantly... not. We don't want to go there again. |
| 1:23.0 | And Hoover reluctantly backs away. |
| 1:26.0 | I say reluctantly because he's making better speeches now. |
| 1:29.5 | You note that he's not stuck the way he was in 28, very hard, very difficult and what you say |
| 1:37.2 | slow-paced presentation. He's making much inferior remarks, but we need to go to |
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