Riding the Oratory Train | The Oval Office
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop revisits September 25, 1919 and the collapse of grand speeches for peace delivered by President Wilson.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
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| 0:53.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of the presidency. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. |
| 1:00.0 | A frail and sickly president elected to deal with the internal affairs of the nation |
| 1:08.3 | drove himself within inches of the about the way that his office and democracy function. |
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