PREVIEW: More detail from my two-hour conversation with David Pietrusza re the 1936 campaign. The GOP nominated Kansas governor Al Landon, a pleasant, genial figure whose best idea for the contest was to say, when elected, he would continue the popular N
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776
1937 FDR and the First Lady
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| 0:20.0 | UK. This is John Batcher. The election of 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 0:27.6 | versus the Republican nominee, Al-Thlanden, the very popular and pleasant |
| 0:32.4 | governor of Kansas. The puzzle for the Republicans |
| 0:36.2 | pouring money into everything they can in order to defeat Roosevelt, the puzzle |
| 0:41.6 | is what is our message, what is our message? |
| 0:43.8 | What does our candidate make of the New Deal? |
| 0:47.4 | Well, David describes a candidate, Alfaandon of Kansas, during a severe heatway is very okay with the new deal. |
| 0:58.0 | In fact, he's going to continue the new deal. |
| 1:00.6 | He's just going to do it, well as David describes more efficiently. |
| 1:05.7 | That's the message. Just the same as Roosevelt except I'm pleasant. I'm from Kansas. |
| 1:11.8 | Here's David Petrucha on the campaign strategy of the Republican Party |
| 1:17.1 | in 1936. The book is Roosevelt sweeps the nation. I guess you know the end of this story. |
| 1:23.0 | FDR's 1936 landslide, it was an earthquake, and the triumph of the liberal ideal, |
| 1:30.0 | David Fuchsia. |
| 1:32.0 | The Republican Party continues to pour money and speakers and |
| 1:37.1 | organization into the race, but absent a compelling candidate and actually absent a compelling message because |
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