S8 Ep338: THE DEATH OF LOUIS HOWE AND THE POLITICAL VACUUM Colleague David Pietrusza. In April 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt faces a critical moment as his longtime advisor, Louis Howe, lies dying. Howe, an unsightly and acerbic man who "worshipped" Roosevelt, had gu
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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1936 SWITZERLAND REVENUE
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| 0:51.3 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four times elected president of the United States. The first re-election is the critical change from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, |
| 0:57.2 | the candidate of from outside from New York in a Democratic Party dominated by the South |
| 1:03.2 | and had been even before the catastrophe of the Civil War. And into a national party, |
| 1:10.7 | 1936, I welcome David Petrucia, the historian and storyteller of |
| 1:17.3 | the new book Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, subhead, FDR's 1936 landslide, and the triumph of the liberal |
| 1:25.9 | ideal, revelatory about trends that are in place today, |
| 1:30.9 | voting demographics, national attention for where the Republicans do not fare, |
| 1:37.1 | where the Democrats fare very well. |
| 1:39.9 | David, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:41.4 | Hardy congratulations. |
| 1:43.3 | And we begin in 1936 as Louis Howe lays dying. |
| 1:49.0 | And Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's wife, very strong-minded wife, but alienated from his affections for many years, |
| 1:57.7 | has attached herself to caring for Louis Howe in the hospital as he coughs himself |
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