Tag Archives: Franklin D Roosevelt

S006 – It’s Convention Time!

August 2, 2020UncategorizedAbraham Lincoln, Al Smith, Alton B Parker, Andrew Jackson, Anti-Masonic Party, Anti-Saloon League, Champ Clark, Democratic Party, Edwin T Meredith, Franklin D Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, Henry Clay, James A Garfield, James G Blaine, James K Polk, James M Cox, John C Breckinridge, John C Frémont, John W Davis, Ku Klux Klan, Lewis Cass, Martin Van Buren, National Republican Party, Oscar Underwood, Republican Party, Robert La Follette, Samuel Ralston, Stephen Douglas, Tammany Hall, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Walsh, Ulysses S Grant, Victoria Woodhull, Whig Party, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William McAdoo, Woodrow Wilsonpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1824-1992

Since the first national party convention in the United States in September 1831, party conventions have played a key role in American politics. In this episode, we explore the role of these gatherings in determining presidential nominees as well as setting agendas through the party platform and examine a few notable conventions in detail. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Eleanor Roosevelt addresses Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. July 18, 1940,” courtesy of Wikipedia

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S005 – Unprecedented Part II

June 21, 202032 - Franklin D RooseveltAlben Barkley, Alf Landon, Arthur Vandenberg, Charles McNary, Cordell Hull, Democratic Party, Douglas MacArthur, Edward Joseph Kelly, Eleanor Roosevelt, Election of 1936, Election of 1940, Election of 1944, Frances Perkins, Frank Knox, Frank Murphy, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harold Ickes Sr, Harry Hopkins, Henry Stimson, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, Ilo Wallace, James Farley, Joe Martin, John Nance Garner, Millard Tydings, Republican Party, Robert A Taft Sr, Robert H Jackson, Sam Rayburn, Thomas E Dewey, Wendell Willkiepresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1936-1944

With increasing uncertainty in the global situation and continued instability in the domestic economy, candidates lined up on both the Democratic and Republican sides to succeed Franklin Roosevelt at the end of his second term. However, 1940 found the President considering what was previously unthinkable: running for a third term of office. In this special episode, we explore this unprecedented election conducted under the looming threat of being drawn into a war waging abroad. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Wendell Willkie, President of the Commonwealth & Southern Corporation appearing before House Military Affairs Subcommittee” by Harris & Ewing [17 May 1939], courtesy of Wikipedia

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V003 – Interview with Jared Cohen, Accidental Presidents

May 26, 2019UncategorizedAbraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Chester A Arthur, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, James A Garfield, John F Kennedy, John Tyler, Lyndon B Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Zachary Taylorpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1835-2009

In this episode, I talk with Jared Cohen, author of Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, about the presidents who came to the office due to the untimely demise of their predecessor and how their becoming president altered the course of US history. In this wide-ranging discussion, we assess some of the successes and failures of these presidents as well as the history of how constitutional questions related to succession were answered and what questions still remain. Images used in this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Jared Cohen” by Esther Nisanova

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0.02 – Presidential Address

March 1, 2017UncategorizedAbraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, Benjamin Harrison, Bill Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, Donald Trump, Dwight D Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt, George H W Bush, George W Bush, George Washington, Harold Stassen, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford B Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas E Dewey, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilsonpresidencies

To mark the occasion of the 45th president’s first speech to a joint session of Congress, I present to you this special episode on how presidents have communicated with other politicians and government officials as well as with the general public and how this has changed both with the advent of new technologies and with the varying personalities of the chief executives. From George Washington’s public levees and national tours to Abraham Lincoln’s effective use of the telegraph, from Theodore Roosevelt’s bully pulpit to the Johnson treatment, and from the installation of the White House telephone to the current president’s use of Twitter, this episode covers a great deal of ground. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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Presidencies of the United States

A journey through presidential history from the beginning to the present day

Tag Archives: Franklin D Roosevelt

S006 – It’s Convention Time!

S005 – Unprecedented Part II

V003 – Interview with Jared Cohen, Accidental Presidents

0.02 – Presidential Address