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Okay, so I'm very excited to announce that episode three of our series on Chester Arthur,

I Will Accept, is on the Patreon now.

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letters of my history can beat up your politics. Yeah so this is going to be a five-part series now,

because the more I uncovered, the more that you realize that Chester Arthur's story

deals with really tumultuous events taking place everywhere from the Civil War to the 1880s in American history.

And the politics at the time, especially the intra-party politics between the stalwarts

and half-breeds of the Republican Party, which will lead to a very violent incident.

In part three, Chester Arthur gets the nomination for vice president. And for a

couple of reasons, the common history on this that you might be told, Chester Arthur seeks it out.

That's the one thing I'll say. He seeks it out more than is said. It's not that the Garfield man come to him and say

to make Conkling happy. We want to put you on the ticket. It's something that he seeks out.

Arthur's always presented as a very passive person. And in some ways he is, especially compared to

the guy he's sort of working for, Roscoe Conkling. Conkling's power is starting to

wane during this period, and people see it. Arthur heads up to a political machine in the state

of New York, most important state in the nation that can go either Republican or Democrat and turn

presidential elections. He's talked about for senator. He's talked about for governor. The senator talk is more serious. Indeed, if there weren't some backstabbing going on of Arthur within the stalwart faction of the Republican Party very well could have been senator. So we get into all of this in our third part of the Chester Arthur series.

What else do we got?

I want to hear about the tumultuous Democratic Convention in 1972 that nominates McGovern.

How did somebody like that get nominated?

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