SECOND TERM FAILURE TO BE RELEVANT: 8/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author)
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🗓️ 10 June 2024
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Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years—was marked by contradictions. A politician of uncharacteristic honesty and principle, he was nevertheless dogged by secrets from his personal life. A believer in limited government, he pushed presidential power to its limits to combat a crippling depression, suppress labor unrest, and resist the forces of American imperialism. A headstrong executive who alienated Congress, political bosses, and even his own party, his stubbornness nevertheless became the key to his political appeal. The most successful Democratic politician of his era, he came to be remembered most fondly by Republicans.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batch with Troy Senec, a man of iron, the turbulent life and |
| 0:09.7 | improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland. He leaves office in the election of 1896 a man |
| 0:16.2 | whom Cleveland celebrates McKinley becomes president of the United States. |
| 0:23.0 | Teddy Roosevelt is in the future now. |
| 0:24.8 | Teddy Roosevelt doesn't become Vice President |
| 0:28.1 | until the second term for McKinley. |
| 0:30.4 | Cleveland and Francis, with their two children, I believe at this point, |
| 0:36.0 | maybe more, move, leave Washington, |
| 0:41.0 | and they moved to Princeton, New Jersey. |
| 0:44.0 | And the president becomes involved with Princeton University |
| 0:48.0 | at the time that a young professor is startling everybody |
| 0:52.0 | with his genius in drive named |
| 0:53.9 | Woodrow Wilson. |
| 0:55.8 | What do we know about the relationship between Wilson, |
| 0:58.8 | the future president, and Grover Cleveland, |
| 1:00.9 | the former president. |
| 1:03.6 | They have a relationship that I think we can describe as friendly without necessarily |
| 1:07.6 | being friends. |
| 1:10.3 | Wilson in his capacity as a scholar had actually been quite positive on Cleveland. |
| 1:15.7 | Probably the best contemporary record of the Cleveland presidency and contemporary analysis |
| 1:21.2 | was written by Woodrow Wilson in the Atlantic. |
| 1:24.4 | Wilson praises Cleveland in his post presidency |
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