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You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 4 - Showdown In New York
2024/01/22
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With a split southern primary day, the Democrats have no clear leader. Team Dukakis would like to have been thought of as the leader, but Illinois and Michigan spoiled that. Only one state can settle things. And the Big Three Democratic campaigns settle on New York. Millions of dollars, frenetic debates, subways and hot dogs. It's all fun and games until New York City's mayor gets involved. Meanwhile, Bush is rapidly securing his nomination, but no one can tell Bob Dole that. He still has a few plans, if anyone will listen.
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You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 3 - Attack Videotape
2024/01/15
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In the wake of a front-runner's withdrawal, the campaigns struggle to get traction and block rival campaigns. The best weapon. An attack videotape. A story of three attack videotapes. One sent to a reporter which took out a major player in the campaign. Another in the snows of New Hampshire that saved a candidate, and a third that kept a campaign alive. Also a video that was never sent that should have been sent.
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You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 2 [You Slayed My Dragon]
2024/01/08
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Gary Hart, the frontrunner in the Democratic side of the 1988 race, hits a major setback. Not only his he hurt, but so are all the people who wanted to have the chance to beat him. Now what? Jump Ball, says an aide of new candidate Joe Biden. Biden hopes to fill the gap, with his appeal to Baby Boomers will carry him forward. Al Gore enter the race, swinging at everyone. Dick Gephardt comes up with a zero-to-hero TV ad. Bush just can't get through to country people.
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You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race
2024/01/02
In our first episode of our series on the 1988 Presidential Election: a cornfield prognosticator, men of the cloth, a young upstart, a senator with big glasses, a casino king, a prince of the polls and more than a few watching from the outside, thinking about maybe getting in. Who will succeed Reagan?
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Update on UK Politics with Stephen Byrne
2023/12/24
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We talk to Stephen Byrne, host of Whats Am Politics about events in the United Kingdom with some contrasts to politics in the United States. In the UK currently, the government is very unpopular but there's nothing they or anyone else can do about it for at least six months, and probably a year. Meanwhile, a man labelled 'Mr. Boring' might become the country's leader. And a major third party in Parliament, the Scottish National Party, may be decimated in the next election due to intra party changes. Complex, yet interesting - tune in.
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1980 - A Hostage Mom Goes to Iran
2023/12/21
Fed up with the US government's efforts to rescue her son being held hostage, Barbara Timm, mother of a Marine guard at the US Embassy at Iran, goes directly to Tehran. We tell her story.
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The Jacksonians and Their Role in Today's Politics - John Ellis
2023/12/18
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We talk with John Ellis of News Corp, NBC, Boston Globe and currently at news-items.com, to discuss his theory on today's politics. Jacksonians, a group of people who behave in ways the media has misjudged are the force beyond today's polls numbers. We also took a bit about calling states for networks in elections, something Ellis had a role in in the 2000 election.
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The Asterisk: Bush vs. Reagan in Iowa 1980
2023/12/11
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In 1980, George Bush did the impossible. He went from three percent in the polls, an asterisk in the polls, as he called himself, to defeating front-runner Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucuses. The issue: electability, moderation, and age. The event upset a rage and nearly changed history. Indeed, it put the Bush name into politics. We discuss what happened and how it might provide insight into today's races.
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Secrecy and Democracy with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame
2023/12/04
We hear the phrase democracy dies in darkness and how important transparency is - but is it really? After all the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention met in private. Bruce talks with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame about the history of secrecy and democracy.
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Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)
2023/11/27
From the excellent Useless Information podcast, the story of the development of educational television in Mississippi, and the exclusion of one particular program.
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Best Rabbit: Dan Quayle
2023/11/20
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Dan Quayle's name conjures up images of late-night comedian jokes and verbal gaffes, but he may have offered a little-known service to the President he served. In this episode, we discuss George H.W. Bush's vice president, including his ups and downs, and even his recent role in advising Mike Pence during the Jan 6, 2021 events.
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Special Episode: Three Ways You Can Help My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (Hint: All of them are Free)
2023/11/17
We've launched the Fall of USSR as its own podcast to attract new listeners, and I'd like some help. That and a show update of what I am working on. Thanks for listening.
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 5 [Imperialism Just Kind of Happens]
2023/11/13
The Spanish American War, from Spain's point of view. Journalism gets yellow. Roosevelt makes a charge. He gets help from a group that he doesn't acknowledge very well. A little bit about the deconstruction of Reconstruction.
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 4 [The Republic For Which It Stands]
2023/11/09
America is growing, in unison. Time for a pledge.
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Move My Bill! A History of Discharge Petitions
2023/11/06
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It is a rarely used tactic, but when it works, it can do big things, like moving a bill through Congress even if the Speaker doesn't support it. From civil rights to gun show loopholes, from budget balancing to debt ceilings, we look at the Discharge Petition. And why it's become important for GOP conservatives in the 90's and for Democrats today.
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 3 [A Voyage to Other Worlds]
2023/11/02
Attempts to fly, science fiction, and new economic theories.
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's Part 2 [Tin Man[
2023/10/30
Populism rears its head.
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 1 [Mauve Decade]
2023/10/25
A look back at the decade when America got modern.
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Warm Bucket: Vice President John Nance Garner
2023/10/22
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We look at the Vice President who - maybe - described the office as a "bucket of warm spit." He also may have been its most powerful occupant up to his time, and he's responsible in a little way for making two President's careers. He's also the first Vice President to campaign against the President, though since the President wasn't officially campaigning at the time, perhaps it doesn't count.
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Bunch of Topics: House Speakers, Kaiser Permanente, Post Office History, and Poets
2023/10/17
The poet Joyce Kilmer and his story of romantic poetry and war. Removing speakers (while Kevin McCarthy is the first speaker vacated by motion, there have been others who have been pressured out) and with Kaiser Permanente in the news a bit about that unique organization, and a view from a visiting French philosopher in the 1940s.
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Lebanon 1983 and Other Stories
2023/10/16
A look at Reagan's intervention in Lebanon in 1983, from a podcast back in 2009. We also look at Wilson' intervention in Mexico in 1913
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Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part Two
2023/10/12
NOTE - if you haven't listened to Part I of our series on Black Hawk you'll want to listen. This is a two-parter. In the second episode. Chief Black Hawk has an improbable victory, and it sets the stage for all-out conflict.
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Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part I
2023/10/09
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In 1832, a renegade chief crossed the Mississippi river. In his view, it was simply to get back to his cornfields. But the United States considered it an invasion, and reacted accordingly, and at first, badly, leading to deaths on both sides. It was, according to the general that led troops in the war, a mistake. But it would make the careers of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor and open up western settlement.
Yet if Black Hawk was an enemy, why was he embraced by those that defeated him. Why in the name of newspapers, in the county courthouse, in state motos and in attack helicopters, does he remain? We look at the story of Black Hawk, his 'war,' and the consequences. We'll look at appropriation of Native American symbols and the legacy of Black Hawk's war today.
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Carter 1981
2023/10/02
A President becomes a former President. But not before one of the toughest final days of a Presidency.
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History Favors Running Incumbent Presidents, Whenever Possible
2023/09/26
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There is a lot of discussion about to run Biden or run someone else. I can't tell you who you should vote for President, or who you'd prefer to lead your country, but if you look at chances of a party winning or losing an election - History could not be clearer - parties should run an incumbent if they at all can run an incumbent.
-Incumbents win 2/3rds of the time in American History
-Incumbents can affect news and command news in a much greater way than party candidates
-Passing off from a President to a candidate is risky and rare in American history.
-Most Importantly: The incumbent President is always running anyway. If not on the ballot, in the election issues and discussion, and the party candidate will have to run on that President's record anyway.
We also get into the age issue with some snippets of MHCBUYP's 2008 episode on age and the Presidency. That's right from 2008, where we defended a Republican candidate.
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Carter 1979
2023/09/18
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In the third year of the Presidency, Jimmy Carter wrestles with combining the principles of his first term with realities of the American economy amid myriad domestic struggles, two hostage-taking incidents, and a intraparty political rival. He attempts to make a speech that will reconnect him with the American people.
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Carter 1977
2023/09/11
Can the Presidency be done differently? Can a President be less Imperial, more of a citizen, turning the thermostat down in the White House and carrying his own bags? In many ways, Jimmy Carter approached 1977 seeing himself in this light. We look at the first year of Carter's Presidency.
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We Did It Because It Was Fun: The Surprising 1964 New Hampshire Primary
2023/09/04
Four volunteers decided to run their friend's dad for President. The reason: they liked hanging out together and working on something fun. The result may have changed history.
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Washington and The Bill of Rights: A Mystery
2023/08/31
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George Washington was highly influential in constructing a Constitution, but less so when it comes to the Bill of Rights. A few of them he said in one letter, he even found unnecessary. We just don't know which ones. We talk about Washington's role in the convention, his influence on government and what clues he gave in his politics of silence.
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John Quincy Adams w/ Bob Crawford of The Road to Now Podcast
2023/08/28
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With Bob Crawford, co-host of Road to Now Podcast and bassist for The Avett Brothers, we talk about the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. Bob's knowledge of this not well-known President shines through in the interview. He's recently completed a series FORTUNATE SON on JQA. We discuss not only his Presidency, but his post-Presidency. We also discuss Bob and Bruce's college experiences and New Jersey and national politics.
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Running For President From Prison
2023/08/21
The story of Eugene Debs and another case where a Presidential candidate ran from prison and compare - as well as contrast - with the current politics. Also a bit about experimental TV.
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Eyewitness Accounts of Columbine, Jonestown, Lake Placid Olympics, Pablo Escobar and Other Events with Josh Cohen of "Eyewitness History Podcast"
2023/08/14
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Learn something new about major news events from the people there. We talk to Josh Cohen of Eyewitness History Podcast (https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/eyewitness-history/). The excerpts from his interviews manage to knock down some of the myths about major historical events and news stories. We start with the principal of Columbine High School, there on that terrible day, and we go to the newsman covering The Lake Placid Olympics in 1980. We also talk to a Jonestown Massacre survivor, a member of the rock band Queen, and the so-called father of podcasting.
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The Cute Little Third Amendment
2023/08/07
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It's not every day people sit around and talk about the 3rd amendment. And yet, it was important in its time. And is used sometimes to refer to an array of rights. What is quarter? What are soldiers? What does this little amendment mean today, if anything? A re-broadcast of our episode on the Third Amendment about quartering soldiers, starting with. And a look at legal battles in fairly recent history and then one that occurred right after I recorded the episode. (which was resolved in the way I predicted on this cast).
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17 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, Show Update, Reagan and the 1960 Actors Strike, the 28 Amendments? And more..
2023/08/02
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It's been 17 years since we first hooked up that Radio Shack mic to a giant Dell desktop tower and made a show about politics and the history of today. Thanks for the listens. I talk about a change in my life related to the show and about the last actor's strike, and the ERA and the primaries.
Update - no indictment talk on this one, episode already recorded.
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Stop Talking About Momentum: The Race for President 1984
2023/07/24
It wasn't supposed to be a race. Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, John Glenn battle to take on Ronald Reagan in 1984. As do some other candidates. We look at the race that year and mine it for any insights into 2020 and American politics in general.
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Three Point Two: The Story of New Deal Beer, Science, Government and Common Sense
2023/07/17
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Before Prohibition could be repealed but after many Americans had grown tired of it, a novel political trick was tried - declaring beer was OK. Well a certain kind of beer, called 3.2. It only lasted eight months, though in many states it lasted longer and in one American state, is still law. We look at this forgotten part of the New Deal and how it provides an example of the role of science in American politics.
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JFK at 106 – Searching for The True Kennedy (Interview with Thomas Oliphant)
2023/07/10
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A replay of our interview with Thomas Oliphant: Will the real JFK please stand up. What image should we have today of the 35th President. Our interview with author and Boston Globe reporter Thomas Oliphant, about his book Road to Camelot Inside JFKs Five Year Campaign. We talk about how we should view the President who will turn 100 this month.
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The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
2023/07/04
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You only think you know them. Ironworkers, militia captains, lawyers, preachers, tinsmiths and. Names still unknown mixed with Mayflower descendants. Powerful and unknown men. Rich and poor men. In the longest MHCBUYP episode, of course based largely on our They Signed Podcast of years ago, this is the story of the declaration's signers.
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Playing Cards With the Signers of The Declaration w/ Jason Petri
2023/07/03
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Break your news bubble and see biases in coverage clearly -Download our sponsor Ground News's App at - Ground.News/myhistory All about Signers in this one. We talk to Jason Petri, listener to MHCBUYP about his playing card deck project, and we discuss: :the lives of the signers What can Button Gwinnett, Stephen Hopkins or Thomas Heyward Jr. do for us?
The importance of the Declaration, even when the country hasn't lived up always to the aspiration (with help from a former president for a good interpretation). The history of the actual document, and how it was saved from British capture. A reminder - we are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network - Check out great shows at airwavemedia.com
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Extras from the "Undeniably Unconsecutive" Grover Cleveland Episode
2023/06/30
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Campaign songs, Kangaroo Ballots, The Dapper Governor Hill. More Burke Cockran and Churchill. Everything we left out of the podcast episode about Governor Cleveland's second non-consecutive term.
If you haven't listened to that episode yet, we suggest listening to it first.
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Undeniably Unconsecutive: The Story of Grover Cleveland's Third Election
2023/06/26
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Only one person has been elected President twice in non-consecutive terms. But it was not easy. To do it Grover Cleveland had to pass a few difficult tests. From Goody-Goodies to Anti-Snappers, to Anti-Egoists and Scarecrow Festivals; from entering opposing party contests in secret ways to placing bets for your own candidate, to pretending to run in states and letting a third party win, to taking forceful honest stands, 1892 had everything. It was a triumph of navigating complex steampower politics.
The first being, did he really want to run again?
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Why Didn't Goldwater and LBJ Debate? A Biden-Obama Ticket? Hoover's Children's Charter, Podcast Recommendations and More
2023/06/10
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Remember that TV debate between Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson in 1964? What a showdown! Just kidding of course, there wasn't one. Why wasn't there one, and what happened as a result. (hint - major policy change) We talk about the debate JFK might have had with Goldwater. Then we get into the Constitution and what is says and doesn't say about 2 term Presidents attempting to run for Vice President. Not that that's going to happen. And a look at Herbert Hoover's Children's Charter and what it means in placing him on the political spectrum. And - a wee bit about Yalta and the complications of assessing Yalta.
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W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams
2023/06/04
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In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic and patriotic participation in World War I. He thought it was the key to expanding rights and treatment for African Americans. He was only to be later disappointed by the treatment of soldiers in France, the treatment of veterans when they came home, and the revision of history after the war to downplay accomplishments of African American soldiers. He struggled to write a book but could never come to terms with his own role in World War I and what came after. We discuss the life and legacy of the author and activist W.E.B. DuBois with Chad L. Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.
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Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part III: A Certain Kind of Hari-Kari
2023/05/29
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In our final episode on the first GOP governor of Florida since Reconstruction, Claude Kirk. Kirk's flamboyant style got him attention as a national political star in the late 1960's. But three particular actions he takes will trap him and make his future difficult.
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Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part II: Boo Me!
2023/05/22
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In his first and second years as an improbable GOP Governor in the South in the 1960's Kirk, tries out a new type of politics, at least new to the Sunshine State: confrontation. Equally with protestors, strikers, and polluters, he confronts them straight on. He also makes a miscalculation that will hurt his rep while he's winning a political victory.
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Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part I: Flashbulbs
2023/05/15
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In the late 1960's the first GOP governor of Florida since Reconstruction found himself elected with no support in the legislature. He had only a microphone and so he used direct confrontation, insults, press-bashing and other tactics to get elected and get his way. Rather than let things be he took on left-wing hippies and right wing segregationists alike in the early part of his term. He aimed his cannons at communists, but also at good old boy political machines. And what do you know, he also is the governor to bring in a large amusement park to the state. Move that Earth he said! This will be part 1 of a 3 part series.
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Can The President Just Use the 14th To Pay the Debt? [From 2014]
2023/05/11
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An older cast where way back when - we looked at the possible use of the 14th Amendment to pay the debt off without Congress by President Obama. It never came to fruition - in fact Obama panned the idea, calling it an esoteric Constitutional argument. It wasn't as useful as just working something out with John Boehner, I suppose. But times have changed, and this is worth a re-listen.
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Men will Walk Upright and Children Will Laugh! The Risks of Prohibition
2023/05/08
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So said the Reverend Billy Sunday on the passage of Prohibition. Needless to say he oversold, and the forces that changed the Constitution would, for the only time, change it back. A look at Prohibition from many angles. Did it do any good? Did it cause, as at least one contemporary said, the drug problem? What does it say about drug legalization, really. From a long-since aired previous episode. The changes in society and view of law enforcement the legislation brought.
This was written a decade ago - since then I have watched the Ken Burns special, and I do own a TV set.
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The Supreme Court Story of Abe Fortas
2023/04/22
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Abe Fortas was a rising star on the Supreme Court. He argued a still-legendary case before it and then was appointed one of its justices. For many he was seen as the successor to Earl Warren. It was when he was nominated for Chief Justice that opposition cemented. He was too close to the President, too liberal on issues, and then there were disclosures of contributions he had received were revealed. After a drawn-out stalemate he withdrew his candidacy for Chief Justice. But it wouldn't stop there. Fortas also stepped down as an Associate Justice as the administration changed and political pressure increased.
The Fortas case would be revealed later by insider and Watergate persona John Dean as part of an 'unpacking' plan that President Nixon had to reduce the left-lean of the Warren court, though it wasn't obvious at the time. But it's not that simple either. Fortas's case also has set a precedent for the danger of having a Justice with a close relationship to the Chief Executive.
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[one note of errata on this episode- we said Goldberg was Kennedy's only Supreme Court justice. This was incorrect - he had two. Byron White as well. ]
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Introducing - Founding Son: John Quincy's America
2023/04/13
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Please to introduce a podcast from friend of the show Bob Crawford of Road To Now Podcast and the Avett Brothers
In iHeartPodcasts' "Founding Son: John Quincy's America," Bob Crawford of The Avett Brothers explores the post-presidential legacy of America’s sixth president: John Quincy Adams. Though often only seen as a failed one-term president and the son of a Founding Father, Adams spent his final decades in Congress fighting the slavocracy and forming a bridge between the founding of America and the era of Lincoln. Founding Son features Patrick Warburton as the voice of John Quincy Adams, Nick Offerman as the voice of Andrew Jackson, and Grey DeLisle as the voice of Louisa Adams.
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Presidents In Trouble
2023/04/10
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It's time to talk trouble. With the talk of history being made, and in a way it has, we think it's best to note that the law and the Presidency have been, close, several times. Certainly people around Presidents have faced the law, sometimes for actions rendered for a President. And after all the Constitutional Framers took time out of their busy days to deal with Presidents and crime.
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FDR is Saved, Sidney Poitier, Lunar Bases and The Sugar Lobby
2023/04/03
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FDR may have never taken the oath if not for the quick thinking of a woman in Miami who, along with detectives may have thwarted a shooter. a 2023 - 'hodge podcast' of different things. A former Speaker talks about a lobby that flies under the radar but controls D.C. A writer that said what he really thought about Warren Harding. And Sidney Poitier navigates life as an African-American man and an actor.
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Infringe: The History of a Word and The Gun Debate
2023/03/30
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What's in a word? Lots, maybe, when its a key word in the most contentious debate in America. The word "infringe" determines the threshold of how the Constitution should be enforced. But do we understand the word, and if we do, are we applying it correctly in our political debates over guns and politics? In this cast we look at how framers like Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson used the word, and how it's applied in DC v. Heller and US v. Miller. We contrast infringe to its Constitutional cousin abridge, and we look at what the NRA asserts about the 2nd amendment's words, including the word infringe.
We also look at the current New York carry law Supreme Court case and where the Court is likely to go, and look at guns and politics in general.
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FALL OF USSR: Bonus "Bloknot" (Notebook) Episode
2023/03/20
More of the story - Boiler room bohemians, the coup before the coup, Soviet "Easterns" Cowboy Movies, cassette tapes of Vladimir Vysotsky, how to save money, USSR style, faking out the KGB and more. What we left behind in the notebooks from the six-part FALL OF USSR series.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 6 - Two Bears in a Cave
2023/03/06
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A country is removed from the map in a week. There's more too than that, but it's not far from the most truthful description. The final episode of our series on the fall of the Soviet Union finds a rescued Gorbachev quickly realizing that he might be in yet another seizure of power. But this one happening quietly over a few tiring days. And with the support of the Russian people.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 5 - I Cannot Forsake Principles!
2023/02/27
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The first blood is spilled. We look at the right-wing of Soviet Society which triggered the putsch. And the rebellious elements that also existed. Jeans, rock and roll, religion, revisionism and weakness.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 4 - Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
2023/02/20
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As barricades are built and citizens turn to a protective barrier, the Soviet culture they come from might be the very thing that keeps them going.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 3 - Athens vs. Sparta
2023/02/13
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Two institutions, the press and the military, may well determine the fate of the USSR on the night of August 19th, 1991. The Emergency Committee decides, it's time to explain themselves on TV. A reporter makes a fateful decision. So does another. A motley crowd is fashioned into an instant militia.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 2 - The Steam Bath of History
2023/02/08
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Yeltzin has stood on a tank, but few have seen it. Crowds shift from the traditional protest places to a new one. They bring heavy metal. What on Zemlya is happening?
It all starts in a steam bath. Sort of.
In order to understand the events of August 19th, 1991, it's necessary to look back. Particularly at 1989, when the most orderly country on earth became the most unpredictable.
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FALL OF USSR: Part 1: Wake Up, Cassandra!
2023/02/06
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Soviet citizens wake up to tanks outside their windows in 1991. Media is censored. The President is detained. Another president escapes, maybe just escapes... A third President is powerless. Is this the end of everything?
Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris Novembrino
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About Classified Documents and Politics, and our upcoming USSR cast
2023/02/01
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Get ready for the FALL OF USSR podcast which launches Feb 6th. If you can't wait for all of the episodes, you can get 5 now at Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp
Also a whole bunch about classified documents.
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A Sense of Humor as a Weapon - Vice President Thomas Marshall
2023/01/27
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We look at Woodrow Wilson's Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall and his unique wit and approach to government. Some felt he should have become President given Wilson's condition. Outward indications are, he didn't want the place. The Hoosier lawyer turned national player's story, and about the relationship between VP and POTUS in the past compared to now.
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"Wrong Forever on the Throne!" - William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in His Later Years
2023/01/18
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The Democratic Party had a problem in the nineteen teens and twenties. What to do with a candidate that could stir up crowds but not enough electoral votes? Though pleased to nominate him in 1896 and introduce a new kind of politics to their party, some Democrats grew tired of William Jennings Bryan especially in his later years as his fundamentalism turned to alcohol, evolution and an arguable Southern favoritism.
Also a brief look at his daughter, Ruth Bryan Owen
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Speaker Election of 1855, 20th Amendment and a Show Update
2023/01/08
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We talk a bit about Nathaniel Banks, the Speaker of The House of Representatives that (still) took the most ballots to be elected. Kevin McCarthy joins the ranks of Speakers that needed multiple ballots - we discuss the implications. A brief look at Frederick Gillett, the last Speaker to even need two ballots in 1923, and then a look at why Congress starts on January 3rd.
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We Need to Talk. About the 72nd Congress.
2022/12/26
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The 72nd Congress of 1931 was, as elected, a very narrow Republican House 218 R - 217 D. Close, but for President Hoover, good enough. That is until, 14 Congressmen-elect died. Not all at once - that would be weird - over 13 months, for all kinds of reasons but heart attacks and pneumonias leading the list. When special elections were held, it went 218 D and 216 R. 1 Farm Laborer supported the Democrats so 219-216.
We talk about this curious case. We also talk about the 14 Congressmen-elect who had some interesting biographies. And we talk Herbert Hoover and the spin he (tried to) put on The Great Depression.
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Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge
2022/12/22
Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge
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Inflation vs. Space: How The Cost of Things Limited the Space Program
2022/12/20
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When President Kennedy inspired the nation to put a man on the Moon, he did so at a time when the word "inflation" was not on the mind of most Americans. Why should it have been, the rate was a paltry 1.1%. And we needed to beat the Soviets to the Moon. Once we did, and as the cost of goods, materials and rocket fuel rose over time, The United State's space dreams were limited.
Inflation didn't kill space, but it sure changed what the goals of going to space became. We look at the trends of inflation and space exploration on this episode.
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Leap to Freedom: Hans Konrad Schumann's Story
2022/12/13
One three-second period changed the life of an East German soldier. Stories of freedom and oppression feature heavily on this hodge-podcast episode, the Berlin Wall, the Uruguay dictatorship of the 70's and 80's, a bit about Grover Cleveland and a bit about Charles III.
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Drinking With FDR
2022/12/12
From his bamboo shaker to his views on prohibition, all about Franklin Roosevelt and drinking.
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The Mystery of the Black Bands on the Goalposts? and Other Stories
2022/12/05
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A few 'leftover' stories from the previous episode on the World Cup in Argentina, 1978. One story about the black bands that were on the goalposts has been challenged by Argentine newspapers, Reddit threads and other sources. Although there is a story that it was there to remind people of the victims, we probably have to write this one off to urban legend, as the original source could not be found to verify it.
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Soccer and Repression: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina
2022/12/02
As the world attention focuses on a soccer game, behind the surface is a disturbingly hidden suppression of a previously strong democracy.
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Close Encounters of the Congress Kind: Times When the House Membership was Close Between the Parties
2022/11/28
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The average difference between the two major parties in the House of Representatives at any time in American history is sixty. That being said, there are a few times where one, two or nine seats separated the two major parties in Congress. Sometimes it was Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes it was Whigs and Democrats. You want to be speaker, you scramble. You make a deal with a Socialist, or a Know-Nothing. You find a guy who nobody hates and make him Speaker, hoping that person will listen to. Or you hold out for as long as you can ballot after ballot until people get tired. The record is the 65th Congress in 1917, where one seat separated the two. With a close house arriving in 2023, We look at American history for these times.
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The Youth Vote: John Lennon's Dream, Nixon's Nightmare
2022/11/21
A discussion of the 26th Amendment, the story behind it. John Lennon and his attempt to mobilize youth voting, and how Nixon countered it. And a look at the 18-29 year-old vote in recent elections including the recent midterm. Parts from 2013 and parts recorded this year.
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One Vote Grant Didn't Want
2022/11/18
A look at Susan B Anthony's Story, Also a Promising 1908 Candidate that was not too be.
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You Can't Always Get What You Want? The 2022 Midterm Result, and Listener Questions
2022/11/12
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Call 2022 the Mick Jagger midterm - neither party got fully what they wanted. Both parties experienced win and losses. It is, so far, largely a "stave midterm" where the President's party lost less seats than expected - we've discussed a few of these on this podcast, and thus for the party expected to have lost seats a kind of win. Yet in this case as opposed to other 'stave' midterms, the President's Party looks like they will lose the house. So when is a win a win and a loss a loss? Is this like the 1970, 1990 or 1994 or 1974 elections? We discuss all this and talk about a midterm in the past.
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Once Upon a Time in Westminster
2022/11/06
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a story of 1970's British politics. A change in country is behind every corner of the smoking room, every staircase, and every pint of ale. On benches red and green, members make moves. A pipe-smoker, a yacht champion, a grocer's daughter a former (maybe current?) spy.
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Something Happened: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run
2022/10/31
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The race for the Democratic Nomination in 1968 a complicated one, as one candidate would drop out and another die tragically. But for a while, with other candidates choosing not to enter primaries, the '68 Democratic primary became a fight between two concepts of being left in politics and two individuals that couldn't be more different. Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.
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Lonely Midterm, 1970
2022/10/17
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Nixon's first presidential midterm election (the election in which the House and Senate would be up for election) would turn out to be his last, but no one knew it at the time. Nixon tried something Presidents hadn't tried and took off in Air Force One to boost GOP candidates and attack hippie "thugs" across the country. He hoped to reverse the midterm trend. He did not, and he blamed bad audio and unhelpful political science. He may have done better than he thought.
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Nineteen Seventies Ephemera
2022/10/02
PROGRAM ONE: Ford's Bad Day - Dylan's Troll - Howard Cosell's Politics
PROGRAM TWO: Skylab's Fall Nixon Shako Warriors - One Hit Wonder
PROGRAM THREE: High School Riot - Global Cooling and Warming
PROGRAM FOUR: Austin Gets Weird
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Savings and Loan Crisis
2022/09/27
One reaction to the inflation stagnation and interest rates of the 1970's was to loosen up on a particular 'harmless' form of banking. It didn't work out so well.
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Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do)
2022/09/23
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In the past 100 years, over 80% of the first term midterms went badly for Presidents, and their party lost seats. But in a few cases they did not. And a few times when they did, the result was very little real change or even a kind of win. A look at first term midterms during the Presidencies of Chester Arthur, Harding, FDR, GW Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
A combo of new and previously recorded MHCBUYP episodes reveals that while many first term midterms have devastated the President's plans, Presidents don't always do badly, there are 'stave' elections where Presidents have lost so little it's almost a win. And sometimes, a defeat has positive effects.
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Whiskey, Ice and Federal-State Powers
2022/09/18
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The American system is one of divided and concurrent power. Where state starts and federal ends has not always been easy to clarify. A heat wave and a rebellion are among the many incidents that filled in the gaps.
Most importantly, The Whiskey Rebellion went a long way to define federal and state powers. The actions taken by President Washington to enforce Federal tax authority, his behavior in regards to contentions of the Pennsylvania governor asserting state power, as well as the large size of the operation, all set important standards that help to define politics today.
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That Time when John. F. Kennedy Ran for Vice President
2022/09/04
In 1956 JFK made his first attempt for an Executive Branch office. Thank God he didn't win it, many thought afterward.
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Truman's Vice: Alben Barkley and the Creation of the "Veep"
2022/08/31
Among other things, we owe the word 'Veep' to Alben Barkley. But more than that. The stumper, legislator and hog caller was a bridge between the 19th century and the 20th. Alben Barkley was an energetic if older Vice President and his actions, along with those of Truman, made the office of VP stronger than it was.
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The Force that Could Not Be Stopped
2022/08/29
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The way Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. approached civil rights was not passive - it was in your face, give no "Fs" style as might be said today. He made some enemies but also got a lot done. In telling the story of Congress's seating powers we tell two stories. One of Emerson Etheridge, the Clerk of the House who during the Civil War attempted to use his powers to take over the House for him and his more conservative Unionist party and to steer policy away from Lincoln administration policy. It almost worked, was it not for a timely tip-off and quick thinking from Lincoln himself. Also the story of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. African-American Congressman whose flamboyant style as well as lingering scandals saw him not seated for Congress - until he took his case to the Supreme Court.
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And to the Republic: Thoughts about Everything Going on in Politics
2022/08/27
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A trip to DC inspires me. I try to talk about just about everything going on in this episode from midterms to J6 to Mara Lago to the Republic as it stands, to third parties in US politics, to former Presidents running to a town name in New York that I butchered. And in case we think things are crazy today, we look a bit at how a poet and a writer viewed Washington in 1963 and 1964.
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Now That's The Right Way to Lose an Election
2022/08/21
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Samuel Tilden is visited by throngs of supporters who want him to proclaim from his balcony that he is President. His answer takes place in a closed meeting, but we are privy to the moment thanks to a political reporter's account. 1876 is the key historical example of an election in American history so bitterly contested, with wrong committed on both sides: Democrats intimidated voters, Republicans responded by ignoring vote returns and merely claiming they won the states. It might have meant a return to rifles, at least in some areas of the country. It definitely was getting hot in D.C.
William C. Hudson was able to witness the actions of that candidate when urged by partisans to start an extra-constitutional movement.
Also a meeting between Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt witnessed by the same reporter.
It finds T.R. not so happy with the result.
From political reporter of the 19th century William C Hudson comes too stories with resonant power today.
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Benevolent Policeman? The History of Congressional Committees
2022/08/15
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Harry S. Truman thought a congressional committee ideally should be like a 'benevolent policeman' Not changing the facts but investigating them. He should know as he headed up one. Yet he was also critical of committees during his time that he felt did not meet the criteria. Since an investigation of a U.S. army defeat by a Native American tribe in the 1790's, to a look at an attack on the Capitol today, there is a voluminous history of Congressional committees. That makes even this hour and one half plus episode an incomplete history. We take a look at some of the committees, including HUAC the House Un-American Activities Committee, not only in the 1940's but it in it's earlies form under Martin Dies in the 1930, we take a look at Kefauver's crime commission that became a TV sensation and a Civil War era committee that is viewed by historians to have hurt the Union effort in that war.
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"We Gotta Go and Never Stop Going!" The Modern American Year of 1948
2022/08/07
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The Elvis before Elvis. Making stores out of jukebox technology. World human rights. What a concept? From sending simian astronauts (read monkeys) into space, to the writing of Jack Kerouac - his roadtrip to Cassidy which will beget On the Road begins this year. And of course, there's Truman's election surprise.. We scour the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics archives to look at post war America in the year 1948. Knowing the atmosphere around 1948 in culture and in economics can shed light on Truman's surprise win.
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Smiling Like He Meant It: Vice President Schuyler Colfax
2022/08/04
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Last week we looked at Thomas Hendricks as part of our summer look at Vice Presidents. Today we look at his Indiana political opposite, Schuyler Colfax, GOP Vice President under Grant for his first term and [notably] not for Grant's second. Hero, smiler, progressive-minded politician, crook, orator, storyteller, friend to Lincoln. These are the labels that have been put on this forgotten Vice President of the United States.
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Small Money and Big Hope / Dasher's Run
2022/08/02
A bit about small money donors in history, and about Jimmy Carter's (Code name Dasher) 1976 run. A rebroadcast of an episode that seems apt as another campaign begins.
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Martyr or Villain?: Thomas A. Hendricks
2022/08/01
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As part of our summer series on obscure Vice Presidents, About Grover Cleveland's first vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks. The Indiana Democratic partisan, stumper, soft money ticket balancer and sometimes issue-straddler is the only Vice President who didn't become President who had his image on the currency.
His views were moderate at his time and disturbing in modern times. He opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments but also opposed the Confederacy in the Civil War.
And he was the highest American official to speak for independence for Ireland.
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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics on C-SPAN - July 30th, 9:15AM - also midterms and inflation.
2022/07/27
We will be on C-SPAN - check out Bruce Carlson live on C-SPAN on Saturday, July 30th at 9:15 AM.
Bruce Carlson will be interviewed about his podcast and of course history and politics.
Thanks to CSPAN for featuring us.
We talk a bit on this quick update episode about midterms and inflation.
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Wills On Duty: The Story of Watergate Security Guard Frank Wills
2022/07/24
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We are a month beyond of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, but it does seem appropriate to note an obscure player in the story. Frank Wills discovered a door had been deliberately held unlocked in the basement of The Watergate Office Complex. The rest became history. But for Wills it was bittersweet. His intersection with history also became a story of race and the choppy waters of a "proto-reality TV" 1970's America.
We also tell the story of an intern in the wrong place at the wrong time, though it was perhaps the right time who played a completely accidental role in thwarting a burglary.
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A History of Student Loans and Higher Ed Financing in the U.S.
2022/07/17
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College costs have been an issue since the founding of the Republic, as we discuss in this issue, And equally, the desire to provide education to young minds has been strong. What's different about the era we live in is that college is closely associated with debt. Debt that cannot be removed by bankruptcy, and debt that is now considered a national problem.
We look at student loans, their history, and on the way a bit of a history of American education. How Harvard isn't Harvard, in a manner of speaking. How Jefferson and Wilson got seriously involved in dorms. How Nixon created a monster, though we can say on purpose. How even education for GIs has been controversial, and how Senator Joe Biden played a role in the problem that President Joe Biden seeks to solve (or ameliorate).
Thankful to Brian Stolk and Chris Novembrino who made contributions to research for this episode.
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A Midterm Election About Nothing, and Other Stories
2022/07/10
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Not all midterms are bad for the President's party. It's just that, most of the midterms in history go against the party in The White House.. We'll discuss 1990's "Seinfeld Midterm," (the midterm about nothing, 1978 Carter first "not that bad" midterm, and others. We'll look at these and others where the party in the White House lost a lot less than the 31 seat average loss in the House, or gained seats and had a similar positive or not so bad result in the Senate.
1990, that gave Democratic Giants Cuomo (father) and Bradley a big scare, but also scared GOP's Newt Gingrich.
1978, Carter's first midterm which was not a gain nor a loss for Democrats and left Carter without a black eye he was expecting, and left control unchanged. A Democrat in Iowa loses his seat, while Al Gore enters Congress in Tennessee.
Calvin Coolidge's 1926 loss of nine House seats which he interpreted as a victory (and why he wrote off the loss of six Senate seats).
Nixon's 1970 midterm that was well less than the historic 31 seat loss in the house, with an extra plus that the GOP gained 2 seats in the Senate, and why he was still grumpy.
The rare birds where the President Party gains seats in the House. It's happened 3 times from Wilson to Trump - 1934, 1998 and 2002. But hasn't happened in 20 years.
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George B. McClellan Junior Would Like a Word
2022/07/04
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George B. McClellan Junior, son of the Union general and Mayor of New York City for two turn-of-the century terms is not history's usual voice, his takes are different. He saw Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson at their most base and political. He became mayor of the nation's largest city and talked about for its highest office, only to earn the displeasure of his sponsors for acting independently (and probably, prudently). He thinks at least one story about Lincoln was overplayed, he was against the United State's entry into World War I. Let's speak to McClellan Jr [ by reviewing his memoirs! ]. About turn of the century politics, political machines, being New York City major and son of famous Civil War General and Democratic candidate for President. . He also speaks to race relations in Congress in the 1890's, being a Northern Congressman in a Southern-dominated party, what it's like to fight the 'tiger' of Tammany Hall and other things.
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About That War of 1812
2022/06/27
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We are just a few days shy of the 210th anniversary of the War of 1812, the declaration of war by Congress was June 17th, 1812. And you know it because there are celebrations and events all across America.., Oh wait, there's not.
The War of 1812 is a little understood war, known mostly for its ending battle in New Orleans and the song that originated from one of its battles. We look at the War of 1812 and one of the battles that was critical, but little talked about today. We talk about what happened that brought us to war? What were the significant battles? What don't people know about it? and what does it all mean for America today including direct influences on today's politics.
From a previous episode, aired 10 years ago on the 200th anniversary, and worth revisiting.
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Presenting: History Is Us
2022/06/22
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Pleased to introduce History is US. It is a 6-part documentary podcast from C13Originals Studios and Jon Meacham, the team behind the 2021 Webby Award-Winning Best Podcast Series It Was Said.
Written and narrated by Dr. Eddie Glaude, award-winning author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, History is US journeys back to face the truths about race at the heart of the American story. From the aftermath of the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century struggle for freedom to the election of Barack Obama to the current day racial reckoning, History is US asks questions about who we are as a nation, what race might reveal about our current crisis and where we go from here.
Through the voices of distinguished historians and scholars, this limited series gives listeners the background and education to understand how we got here … and how we can all use history to clarify the choices before us.
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Nixon Versus Plywood, and Other Presidential Inflation Stories
2022/06/20
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Stories of Presidential inflation fighting and fund-raising that seem to have a similar ring to today's events, in this episode. Nixon's plans to cut housing costs by reducing prices on the key element of housing inspires timber companies but riles environmentalist.
Johnson uses his air fleet to shuttle the right people around to get the price of electrical wiring down.
Eisenhower, Reagan, Hoover and Clinton raise the gas tax.
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Introducing: History Daily Podcast (Story of D.B. Cooper / The Treaty of Ghent Ending the War of 1812)
2022/06/14
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Pleased to introduce History Daily podcast and feature two episodes. One on D.B. Cooper, the mysterious 1970's hijacker. And the second on the resolution of The War of 1812.
Find out more about History Daily at https://www.noiser.com/history-daily:
On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history.
Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.
So if you’re stuck in traffic, bored at work—wherever you are, listen to History Daily to remind yourself that something incredible happened to make that day historic.
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The Underrated Patrick Henry
2022/06/13
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
When Henry said it, he might have been committing treason. Yet the words also made him famous and indicated his superior bravery and patriotism to his country. The trouble is, that's often all he's remembered for. But without Henry the Revolution may not have succeeded and the Constitution may not look like it does. We get into why. From a 2017 interview - a bit about Patrick Henry and his times. Why the forgotten American "founder," one who was often too busy in his home state of Virginia to get nationally famous can provide us with American Revolutionary war stories and government founding narratives more interesting than just the Franklin, Jefferson and Washington stories we are accustomed to.
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Lincoln Over Easy - A Look at a President's Image
2022/06/12
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So, There Was No Smoke-Filled Room After All? And Other Presidential Election Stories.
2022/06/09
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It's the classic story of the 1920 election, but it's probably not true, not in the way it's told at least - that Warren Harding was chosen in a smoke-filled room. Sure, there was probably smoking in a Chicago hotel room in 1920, Sure, there was some Presidential -picking chatter going on. But the story of a single, smoke-filled room that picked a President appears to be more of a legend. Not only that it may be a legend on purpose, or as we now say, fake news. And that may be on purpose, as it originated from a tall tale told to a reporter to make a candidate look good.
This and how another fake news story was created to bring down Martin Van Buren's Presidency and other stories of politics, leftovers from a 2020 cast.
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The Zinger That Saved America: Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne
2022/06/02
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The Union threatened by legislative fiat, a Senator rose to reply to another. For Daniel Webster, it was a real comeback, What we might call a "zinger" today.
"Not Liberty First and Union Afterwards! ...but Liberty and Union now and Forever One and Inseparable,"
Though since it was a 19th century zinger, it took 4 hours to deliver the line. Still it would become some of the most famous oratory in Senate history.
When South Carolina's Senator Robert Hayne spoke in the Senate in 1830 to criticize Massachusetts and its Senator Daniel Webster, his comments were governmental but his intentions were personal. Haynes was an ally of John Calhoun, and he sought to reduce that Senator's reputation and the New England influence in federal government with a stunning interpretation of how the Constitution should work. A state could interpret any law the way it wished, he argued. .
And although several friends told him not to, Haynes aimed his remarks purposefully at the Senate's best Speaker.
Then Webster replied, He defended the patriotism of his home state, attacked the logical points Hayne and made about a state's right to veto a federal law, and called for the Union to be cherished. Although he and Andrew Jackson were not allies, Daniel Webster's speech set the stage for the Jackson administration's position in the upcoming South Carolina tariff nullification crisis.
His speech, and the resulting consensus of agreement in Congress with his side, also set standards for federal and state roles in government, and that still has lots of relevance today.
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What's Going on Across the Pond w/ Steve Byrne of What Am Politics Podcast
2022/06/01
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Lockdown drinks, Partygates, Boris, Brexit, Ukraine, Keir Starmer's wanting and Eurovision: An update on UK, Irish and Northern Ireland politics with Steve Byrne, formerly of What Am Politics Podcast (recently stopped but still with a huge archive). We talk about where things stand in British politics and Bruce and Steve agree with what's likely to happen with Boris. Steve has a favorite if something happens to Keir Starmer. Also Steve complements UK and Bruce Norway in their respective Eurovision teams, while both accept Ukraine's deserved win.
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Free Speech is Easy, and Hard w/ Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law
2022/05/22
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Freedom of speech is boundless and yet has boundaries, according to our guest, Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law. She is the author of 'When Freedom Speaks' There are areas where the First Amendment of The U.S. Constitution protects, and areas where it does not. And this is no normal time. Social media, hate speech, violence in speech, lawsuits against media have all seemed to become more prominent in news. We discuss.
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Nine Kings, One Room: Introducing the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast
2022/05/18
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Something happened in May 29th 1910. It had never happened before. And it has never (so far) happened again. To explain, we turn things over to Airwave Media network podcast Everything Everywhere Daily. Highly recommend subscribing to this podcast if you want to learn interesting facts about a new topic every day. Check out Everything Everywhere Daily's casts on solar power, the history of Friday the 13th (it will surprise you) and other topics.
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Stare Decisis and Spider Man, and Other Stories
2022/05/16
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We discuss the recent leaked SCOTUS interim decision, we discuss Casey, Roe cases, as well as abortion and anti-abortion politics of the 70s through the 90s. We also answer listener questions on - U.S. Grant and his image, favorite podcasts, which President to go on a bus ride with, why John Kerry lost and George W. Bush won in '04, Clinton impeachment, historical novels, First Past the Post voting systems, and conspiracy theories, oh and the signs of the end of the republic, all from MHCBUYP listeners.
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History of a History: Ken Burn's "The Civil War"
2022/05/09
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As Ken Burns moves on to Ben Franklin and Ernest Hemmingway, Vietnam and other topics. it's worthwhile to note how much of our history and historical sense on things, comes from his programs. As old VHS tapes fade, we look at the series that gave so many modern Americans their 'vision' of the Civil War. We take a look at his groundbreaking series, its impact, and how it looks amid today's controversies. In the process, Bruce sees commonality in Burns's approach and his own podcast.
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Joe Manchins of History, Clinton's 50-50 Senate, and Harold Wilson's 1970's Virtual School
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Andrew Carnegie Questions
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Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds
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Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power and His Book - "The Division of Light and Power'
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1866 Mechanics Institute Attack
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Leftovers From the Black Monday and Terrible Tuesday Casts.
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The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit - Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/Bill Scher
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2020/11/26
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2020/10/25
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2020/10/15
The Fifth Debate That Never Happened - 1960
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2020/09/15
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2020/09/08
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2020/08/12
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2020/08/11
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2020/08/11
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2020/07/15
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2020/07/10
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2020/07/02
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2020/06/08
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2020/05/17
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Mister 22 and Mister 24: Grover Cleveland
2020/01/01
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2019/12/02
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2019/11/18
A Deep Dive into The Emancipation Proclamation
2019/11/14
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2019/11/11
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2019/10/20
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2019/08/31
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The Ark of Commerce Part IV: Make It Stop
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2019/05/01
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The Making of the Franklin Pierce Cast
2019/03/01
Nixon in Full
2019/02/20
LBJ 's Cell Phone and His Decision to Jump on the Ticket in 1960
2019/02/20
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Investigating the Executive Branch: The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor
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The Ark of Commerce - Part I: Crash Party
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2018/12/17
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Presidents After Midterms with Matt K. Lewis
2018/11/20
David Priess on the Realities of Impeachment and the History of Presidential Removal
2018/11/14
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Posse Comitatus and Billy The Kid
2018/11/04
Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The American Mind
2018/10/16
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2018/10/16
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2018/09/18
Presidential Scandals: Watergate, Whiskey Ring and Others
2018/09/03
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2018/08/06
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2018/08/01
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Tariffs: Smoot - The Man Behind the Tariff
2018/07/28
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2018/07/28
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2018/07/18
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2018/07/18
Good Economic Times: The Dark Side of Booms: The 1920s
2018/07/17
Civil War Bonds - The Importance of Commerce to the Civil War
2018/07/10
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2018/07/08
Tariffs: Taft Walks Away - The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909
2018/06/10
Marc Ambinder on Being a White House Correspondent
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2018/05/14
Rigged Elections: That Time the DNC Rigged a Nomination
2018/04/26
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2018/04/01
America and Rome: w/ Mike Duncan
2018/04/01
Presidential Power: Democracy's Diet? The Two-Term Presidential Limit of the 22nd Amendment
2018/02/27
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2018/02/24
Where's Reagan? Reagan in Our Politics Today - The Final of the Dozen Ronald Reagans Series - Episode Twelve
2018/01/22
Did Reagan Win the Cold War? A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Episode Eleven
2018/01/21
Year of the Missile: Reagan's First Term Cold War Steps - A Dozen Ronald Reagans, Part 10
2018/01/20
Shockwave 1981 - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Nine
2018/01/11
White House on Fire: Iran Contra - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part 8 -REPLAY
2018/01/09
Reformation: Tax Reform , Immigration, S&Ls - A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Seven
2018/01/06
Hands Across America:: A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Six
2018/01/04
1976 Convention: A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Five
2018/01/02
A Telephone Scandal, and People Giving Their Money to the Treasury
2018/01/01
That "Other Part" of The Declaration of Independence: The Grievances and What They Say About Executive Power, Immigration, and Other Issues
2018/01/01
Witches' Brew: Central America, Lebanon, Poland - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Four
2017/12/31
Rubik's Cube: Two Reagan Mysteries Solved - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Three -
2017/12/29
A Taxing Second Year - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Two
2017/12/26
Rawhide is OK - First of Our Series on a 'Dozen Ronald Reagans'
2017/12/23
The Making of A Dozen Ronald Reagans
2017/12/20
Briefing Ronald Reagan
2017/12/18
Bruce Takes Twenty Questions on History and Politics
2017/11/09
What if there was no Constitution? Emoluments, Tariffs, the 17th
2017/11/02
Rutherford B Hayes Presidency
2017/10/24
President by Accident: Truman, Atomic Warfare, Russians and Trump w/ A.J. Baime
2017/10/17
A Question on Multiple Impeachments, from 2017
2017/10/04
The Grand Ol' Democratic Party?
2017/10/03
How JFK's Death was Felt in The Soviet Union
2017/10/02
Patrick Henry, Underrated Founder - Interview with Jon Kukla
2017/09/05
The Split on The Left of Politics and Why it Matters, w/ Chris Novembrino
2017/08/22
Elvis Presley and America
2017/08/15
Sinking of the Lusitania
2017/08/09
The Sculptor, The Activist and The Senator - More Characters from Andrew Johnson's 1868 Impeachment
2017/08/01
Written Out of History? Robert Yates, Luther Martin, Mercy Otis Warren
2017/08/01
Charleston 1860 and Secession: Interview with Paul Starobin
2017/07/22
John Jay's Horse , George Washington's Mill and the Emoluments Clause
2017/07/08
Interview with Kevin Lacz, Decorated Navy SEAL and Star of "American Sniper"
2017/06/23
The Strange Story of John Morrissey
2017/06/14
A Bit About Gorsuch
2017/06/13
Public Sector vs. Blue Collar Unions and Other Questiions
2017/05/29
We Almost Got Rid of the Vice Presidency
2017/05/29
It's Not Common to Be Unconstitutional
2017/05/28
Lincoln Over Easy: The Creation of a President's Image
2017/05/20
Explaining Brexit and The U.K Election to Americans – Conversation with Stephen Byrne of WhatAmPolitics Podcast
2017/05/16
Bryan On the Tariff
2017/05/06
Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court
2017/04/13
The President’s Book of Secrets: Interview with David Priess
2017/04/02
That Time When a Presidential Candidate Actually Was Bugged
2017/03/04
How to Use George Washington in a Debate
2017/02/28
Interview w/ John Avlon, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, Author of Washington’s Farewell
2017/02/13
The First Hundred Days from Wilson to Trump
2017/02/05
How Mandates Were Invented
2017/01/30
The Census - The Original Big Data
2017/01/26
The (Very Few) Rejected Cabinet Choices
2017/01/11
Emerson Ethridge - The Man Who Tried to Steal Congress
2017/01/09
Were Nazis Right or Left?
2017/01/01
Russian Intelligence and Control from Soviet Times to Putin
2017/01/01
Fib That American President Creates Jobs
2016/12/01
More Post Election Thoughts (2016)
2016/11/24
Why Do Vice Presidents Out Number Presidents? And Other Questions?
2016/11/24
The 2016 Election, Taken with a Swig of History
2016/11/10
Bruce Carlson Interviewed on the Road to Now
2016/11/07
The Real Story of the 1948 Election
2016/11/01
Nasty Campaign Attacks, Set to Jazz Music
2016/10/27
Navy Blue Nixon and Other Stories
2016/10/13
1884: A Very Unpleasant Election - Cleveland vs. Blaine
2016/10/02
Walter Jenkins and the 1964 Election
2016/09/29
Concession
2016/09/14
The Incredibly Shrinking Fourth
2016/09/05
In the End You Become Yourself: Talk with Chris Novembrino of Dont Worry About the Government
2016/08/17
Bob Seeger and the Steelworker - Manufacturing vs. Service in Political Debates
2016/08/02
1840 -Clowns With Pink Noses and Lofty Tumbling
2016/07/07
Rottenborough Delegates: A Quirk in Party Nominations From Lincoln to Trump
2016/07/07
Schedule of Conventions: Why is the GOP Convention First, Democrats Second, Brexit Other Topics.
2016/06/16
Bruce Carlson Interviewed on DWATG Cast - Trump VP, Conventions, If Biden Had Run, and More
2016/05/25
The First Presidential Farewell
2016/05/11
How Much Did The Hostage Issue Affect 1980 Election: One Take
2016/05/11
The "Manhattan Project" in the Clinton 1992 Campaign
2016/05/09
Madison Can't Get a Seat at the Starbucks, and How to Read a Constitution
2016/03/09
The Fib That Your Side is Going to Win
2016/03/09
Scots Irish in American History and Politics
2016/01/21
Huey Long and Trump, Vetoes, and Other Stories
2016/01/19
The Craziest Speaker Election Ever and Other Ephemra
2015/12/20
Why Did the Founders, Signers, Framers Wear Wigs And Other Stories... (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST)
2015/12/15
LIncoln Goes to China
2015/11/25
How Wilson Carried Ohio in 1916, and Other Listener Questions
2015/11/19
Damned Fool Mistake: Eisenhower's Real Feelings About the Supreme Court
2015/10/21
The Man Who Saved Boston But Never Got Credit, Also - the Last Lincoln?
2015/10/15
Pigasus and Odd Presidential Candidates (2015)
2015/06/16
Representation: A History
2015/06/15
Mad Man Finale, 1980 Election and Many Other Side Dishes
2015/05/20
Your Inner Karl Rove
2015/02/01
The War Powers Act (from 2011)
2015/01/21
The Return and Return of Nativism
2015/01/06
Social Security Had Its Glitches Too
2014/12/25
Midterm Defeats and Presidential Coattail in Previous Election
2014/12/11
They Shall from Time to Time?: History of The Opposition Answer to President's SOTU
2014/09/03
The Fitzsimmons Challenge: How a 1790's Race Got Nasty and Maybe Started a Trend
2014/08/15
Logan Act
2014/07/16
History of Education in the US and Other Thoughts
2014/02/02
King's Rook: When the President's Party Has the Senate, Not the House
2014/02/02
What's All This Talk About Swapping Horses?
2013/10/10
Wilson Battles with is own Secretary of State, and Other Stories
2013/08/01
Abolish the Senate!
2013/04/05
Second Terms Worst Than the First
2013/01/02
DC Statehood - from 2013
2013/01/02
Transitions from one President to Another
2012/12/05
Debates Matter Because They Do
2012/11/23
A Bunch of Topics, VP Hobart, Deportation
2012/10/04
The Key Bridge Factor
2012/09/19
Losing VP Candidates
2012/08/09
Strange Days at Conventions
2012/08/01
Why The 1916 Election Matters
2012/06/07
Events of 1916
2012/06/06
Did the Founders Care if We Starve?
2012/06/03
Wendell Willkie and a Lighting Nomination
2012/03/12
In Which the Winner of the '12 Election is Revealed
2012/03/03
FDR's Newsreels, Coolidge's Microphone - Presidents and Their Fave Media
2012/02/02
The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit
2012/01/01
A Cast from 2011 - Obama, Egypt, More..
2011/10/10
The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sector Unions
2011/06/27
Game Time in Politics and The Court
2011/06/08
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's Way of Writing
2011/06/06
Tucson Shooting and American Political Violence
2011/05/12
A Little About Anarchism
2011/05/04
Does the Challenger Even Matter?
2011/02/20
Does a President Lose the Presidency When they Lose the House? "The 2 Year Ditch" of American Politics
2010/12/11
Autopsy of a Midterm 2010
2010/11/18
The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)
2010/10/11
Clayton's Meetings and Other Thoughts
2010/10/07
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midterm Results
2010/09/16
Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A
2010/09/13
Should A President Campaign in Midterms?
2010/09/01
Social Security, Civil War Pensions
2010/03/16
Al Haig and Other Stories
2010/03/15
How the Battle for California Statehood Defined America
2010/03/01
Is Healthcare a "Second Third Rail" of American Politics?
2010/01/10
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
2010/01/10
How Primary Became a Verb
2010/01/03
Famous Brokered Conventions
2010/01/01
You Don't Take on Sitting Presidents Anymore, Because of 2 Elections
2010/01/01
The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes
2010/01/01
What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief Read of Decision Points
2009/10/10
Incredible Passages - Passing BIg Legislation is Not Easy
2009/09/09
History of the Primaries
2009/09/08
Obama and Bush Compared (2009)
2009/08/11
The Terrible Twos?
2009/08/08
Presidents in Times of Anxiety
2009/06/01
Did Stimulus Work? (2009)
2009/06/01
Souter, Torture Memos, Tun Tavern and the Marines, and Other Listener Questions
2009/05/04
Assessing TARP
2009/03/10
'Squeaker' Re-elections
2009/03/03
Pennsylvania Swing State
2009/02/10
Ex Presidents
2009/02/09
Washington's First Year 1789
2009/02/01
Beer and Politics, Tea and Taxes, and Other Listener Questions
2009/01/01
An Historic Election, for Many Reasons, Episode from 2008
2008/12/02
Hillary Clinton as SecState, Obama's Chances in 2012, Chester Arthur and Other Listener Questions
2008/12/01
Election of 2008 Review, with an eye to history
2008/12/01
Flotsam and Jetsom of the 2008 Election
2008/11/12
Why Cant We Lean on a Shovel?
2008/11/11
Financial Panics in America
2008/11/08
Obama Picks Biden for VP - Other Topics (2008)
2008/09/17
Guns and 2nd Amendment (2008)
2008/09/09
Monroe's First Year as President - 1817
2008/08/20
Drifting into Military Involvement in Lebanon 1983 and Mexico 1913
2008/08/14
All About Coattails -Does the President Wear a Coat, or a Windbreaker?
2008/08/02
Ferraro
2008/08/01
The Palin Pick (2008)
2008/07/24
Staying in Iraq, Staying in Vietnam
2008/06/19
Missouri - The Show Me Swing State
2008/06/12
Filibuster-Proof Majorities, Palin and Teddy, Why Look at History, Whigs: Listener Questions#9
2008/06/05
History Picks the President 2008
2008/05/14
Charles II is Messing With Us, And Other Stories
2008/05/12
President of the Senate
2008/04/10
Fifth and Market Moment - Jefferson and Adams, President and Vice President at Odds
2008/02/07
Tax Cuts - Historical Perspective
2008/02/02
Old Dominion
2008/01/13
Fixing the Primaries
2008/01/09
"Super Duper" Tuesday
2008/01/01
British Prime Ministers and US Presidents
2007/12/01
Survivor Island and the Bill of Rights
2007/11/22
Gerald Ford and His Times
2007/10/11
Three-Way Elections
2007/08/08
The Constitutional Conventioneers
2007/05/19
Jefferson and Adams Letters - What Did They Write To Each Other?
2007/05/14
History of Objectivity in the Media
2007/04/10
The Veto Override
2007/03/04
American Zig Zag on Immigration Policy
2007/02/03
The History of the Federal Reserve
2007/01/20
The Veto and its History
2007/01/12
Forty Years of One Party In Congress
2007/01/01
All About Polls
2006/11/01
Nevada and its Politics
2006/09/21
History of Fannie Mae
2006/09/15
Objectivity and The Media (2006)
2006/09/06
Filibuster: A Brief History
2006/09/01
How Do You End A War?
2006/08/17
Abe Lincoln That NeoCon, That Liberal...
2006/08/16
A History of Speakers of The House
2006/08/01
Presidents and the Media - Coddling, Manipulating from Lincoln to Bush
2006/07/02
Has Television Really Changed Politics? An Examination (from 2006)
2006/07/01
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