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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

VICE PRESIDENTS AS CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT: A LOOK AT HISTORY WITH DAVID PRIESS OF CHATTER PODCAST

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As we discuss with David Priess of Chatter Podcast (and the author of books on national security and presidential history) - it's tough to run for President when you are the sitting VP. It hasn't worked that often. Just twice since the 12th Amendment changed the election rules surrounding VPs, a vice president has won the big job. David goes into why this worked. And why on many other occasions, it did not work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But looking back, it sure seems like Eisenhower was very much giving the vibe that he was

0:40.6

lukewarm about Nixon, that it wasn't that he I think he campaigned for him I think he gave some speeches I'm not sure but there's certainly some stuff showing that Eisenhower was not the biggest Nixon fan to the extent that that showed

0:56.0

well that's kind of hard if if you're trying to overcome these obstacles we've talked about and you have the sitting vice president

1:05.1

saying yeah well he really hasn't done much you know he has not been a big

1:11.4

voice in this administration and you know I'm basically

1:14.7

going to go golfing and not do that much for his campaign that really in a close

1:20.1

election which of course it was the closest of elections, that can make a difference, right? Oh, Okay, I'm so glad to be joined by a presidential historian David Priests.

1:52.4

David, how are you? Amature. presidential historian David Preys.

1:52.8

Hello, how are you?

1:54.4

Amateur presidential historian.

1:56.0

I'm reminded of that more and more every day

1:59.8

that I'm not working on a new presidential history project that, you know, I did a couple of books, as you know, one on intelligence and one on how presidents have left office, but I'm interacting with and reading the wonderful work of no kidding presidential historians and

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