The politician who intimidated TR: 8/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik
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The politician who intimidated TR: 8/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik
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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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| 0:20.0 | I'm John Batswitt, Troy Sennick, a man of iron. |
| 0:23.0 | The turbulent life and improbable presidency of Grover Cleveland. |
| 0:27.0 | Cleveland's office, the election of 1896, a man whom Cleveland celebrates McKinley becomes president of the United States. |
| 0:38.0 | Teddy Roosevelt is in the future now. |
| 0:40.0 | Teddy Roosevelt, I hadn't become vice president until the second term for McKinley. |
| 0:45.0 | Cleveland and Francis, with their two children, I believe at this point, maybe more, move, leave Washington |
| 0:56.0 | and they moved to Princeton, New Jersey. |
| 0:59.0 | And the president becomes involved with Princeton University at the time that a young professor is startling everybody with his genius and drive, Namajo Wilson. |
| 1:10.0 | What do we know about the relationship between Wilson, the future president, and Grover Cleveland, the former president? |
| 1:18.0 | They have a relationship that I think we can describe as friendly without necessarily being friends. |
| 1:25.0 | Wilson in his capacity as his scholar had actually been quite positive on Cleveland, probably the best contemporary record of the Cleveland presidency and contemporary analysis was written by Woodrow Wilson in the Atlantic. |
| 1:39.0 | Wilson praises Cleveland and his post presidency as roughly the kind of president those founders probably had in mind. |
| 1:45.0 | And what he meant by that is independent, seeing himself as an independent power center from the Congress and a check on Congress. |
| 1:52.0 | But there is a bit of conflict in the future here because Wilson will become the president of Princeton. |
| 1:57.0 | Cleveland is eventually on the board. |
| 1:59.0 | And the event that actually precipitates Wilson leaving academia and going into politics is what seems to us a very small board dispute over the proper location of the graduate campus then to be built at Princeton. |
| 2:14.0 | Wilson and Cleveland are on opposite sides of this question. |
| 2:18.0 | We have a lot of closed door records of what happened, but we know that there were some fairly icy exchanges, most of the ice coming from the Wilson side. |
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