willkie. i want you to introduce the cabinet -- audiences of some of the fervor. your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. >> >> he was always interested in politics, even from growing up in his hometown. he talked about it in his life, in his childhood with his parents, when they got to college -- it was always an integral part of its life. its life. >> we are in russellville, indiana, one of the homes of wendell willkie. -- russia wilhville, indiana, one of the homes of wendell willkie. homes of wendell willkie. >> this is a wooden post card sent to the united states mail, sent from aberdeen, washington. all of the people in the town actually signed the back of the postcard to say "we want willkie." we want wendell willkie to run for the presidential nomination for the >> was the campaign like? you had or will keep clubs. you had boxes of buttons and banners. banners. >> people wanted something new and different that they ha

willkie was very astute. he was helped by the time the people he had around him in the campaign, or the best of the best. what he would not a farmer, but he went after the agriculture vote. >> the agricultural vote was still very important in 1940. there are a very large number of farmers in america and they are very important -- they vote. foreign policy was central to presidential elections for any president expected to have a chance of victory. they must pay attention to that. that is what we see these photographs of willkie standing in front of a corn field or in front of pigs. some wags said that all the odds in rushvillegs started to pose as soon as the cameras showed up. he was quite honest. one of the nice things about willkie is he was honest, including never actually pretending he was indeed a farmer. >> the major issues in 1940 -- what were they, amity shlaes? >> there with the war. are we going in? do we have to go in? is london is to be bombed, maybe we have to go in. world war i was such a horro

and so, willkie has that problem. now, he ultimately will be the only major candidate to openly engage in the primaries. as we've talked about before, the primaries were not like they are today. it's a much different road -- there's a much different road in 1944 to the presidential nomination than we would see, say in 2012 or 2016. but there are primaries, and willkie will openly participate in a few of them, at least. in the new hampshire primary, he will come in first. he's really the only candidate campaigning. and yet, he falls short of a strong delegate showing. i think there are around 11 or 12 delegates up for grabs in new hampshire, and he wins 6 of them. and just as today, politics oftentimes is a game of expectations, and the expectation was that willkie would get around nine or ten of the delegates. he only gets six. thomas dewey, who was the republican governor of new york, got three delegates and he wasn't even running, wasn't even the ballot, i believe. so, you have a disappointing show for willkie in th

so willkie has that problem. he ultimately will be the only major candidate to openly engage in the primaries. as we've talked about before, the primaries were not like they are today. there is a much different road in 1944 to the presidential nomination than we would see, say, in 2012 or 2016. but there are primaries, and willkie will openly participate in a few of them at least. in the new hampshire primary, he will come in first. he's really the only candidate campaigning. and yet he falls short of a strong delegate showing. i think there were around 11 or 12 delegates up for grabs in new hampshire. and he wins six of them. and just as today, politics oftentimes is a game of expectations, and the expectation was that willkie would get around 9 or 10 of the delegates. he only gets six. thomas dewey, who was the republican governor of new york, got three delegates and he wasn't even running, he wasn't even on the ballot, i believe. so you had a disappointing show for willkie in the new hampshire primary. but he

and unlike willkie, bricker will not openly participate in the primaries. he is going to wage a traditional pre-convention campaign, trying to assemble delegates working behind the scenes in the lead-up to the convention. there were several strengths as far as a potential bricker candidacy is concerned. bricker, for example, was a good speaker. he had a reputation for efficiency in state government. he certainly was the favorite of conservative republicans. and he doesn't have a pre-war isolationist record. and the reason he doesn't have a pre-war isolationist record, that is, there is no paper trail where the opposition can say, well, in 1938 he said this, in 1939 he said this, and then in 1940 just ten months before pearl harbor, he actually said this. there is no paper trail of embarrassing remarks as it relates to foreign affairs. and that's because he was the governor of ohio. he had been too busy as governor to really think about foreign policy, and so some republicans saw that as an asset for bricker. but if bricker had some strengths, he also had so

so willkie's candidacy will rise and fall quickly. the party's standard barrier in 1940 will not make it in 1944. which is kind of a tradition for the republican party up until a little bit later. up to this time, at least, the republican party is not very keen on putting forward a loser for a second go at it. it will do that in subsequent years, in 1948 and then again in 1968. but where the democrats had a tendency to nominate people who had run for president but lost again and again, not so much characteristic of the republican party up to this time, at least. and so willkie's candidacy collapses here in the early part of 1944. any questions or concerns? well, another contender i want you to remember is john w. bricker. bricker was the governor of ohio. he was elected in 1938, re-elected in 1942. and unlike willkie, bricker will not openly participate in the primaries. he is going to wage a traditional pre-convention campaign, trying to assemble delegates working behind the scenes in the lead-up to the convention. there were several

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and sunday, the 1940 republican presidential nominee wendell willkie. >> as i was driving up the streets, at his vacant store window, had pictures of my opponent and his associates on t the new deal ticket. i don't know of anymore appropriate place to put those pictures. >> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to cspan.org. >>> next on history book shelf, author james chace talks about his book. "1912: wilson. roosevelt, taft and debs -- the election that changed the country". describes the personalities and relationships between woodrow wilson, theodore roosevelt, william howard taft and eugene debs. >> welcome to viewers on c-span's book tv. james chace's new book, "1912: wilson. roosevelt, taft and debs -- the election that changed the country". it has just been published by simon and schuster. woodrow wilson center is the memorial to our 28th president. created in 1968 by an act of congress within the smithsonian institution. because woodrow wilson headed princeton university before becoming president the center memorializes his legacy as a bridge between the worlds of aca

the last businessman in 1940, wendell willky. but my favorite one is 1964. there was a stop goldwater movement, which looks exactly like the never trump movement, and it was equally successful. at the end of it, richard nixon said to pat buchanan, if there's ever a stop x movement, you always -- nixon was first against goldwater but then was for him. >> define the importance of these debates in this season. they're always relatively important, right? but is it specially important this time around? >> it depends. if it's still true that there's about 20% of the people that are sloshing around that we've seen in these polls, then those people are going to be looking for who's the most presidential. if it's also true that what the trump campaign says, which is the key test is whether donald trump can occupy the presidency, whether people are willing to hand over the office to him, or is he too risky? the debates can help him. they're actually a chance for donald trump to show, i can perform in this context. it's a context that people think of when they look at

he had led on the first three ballots in 1940 before losing to wendell willkie. quite remarkable, because this year, 1948, he's only 46 years old. now, that's about the age that obama was. that's only three years older than jack kennedy was. he's a young man. and he's been on the verge of power and national notoriety even before that 1940. what is he in 1940? he's an ex-district attorney. he's not even governor. he was the district attorney of manhattan. he was mr. district attorney, crime-buster, the guy who went after the mob, put them in jail, went after the wall street guys, put them in jail. he did it all. he was spectacular as a district attorney. but as governor, he begins to trim his sails. he's looking at the polls, and as a candidate, it's the same way. so, people, even though he's the purported front-runner and he's the front-runner in terms of delegates at this point, he's not particularly loved in the party or among the population. but in this debate, he is the former district attorney. he's a great prosecutor. he's great with a jury. stassen was a p

he had led on the first three ballots in 1940 before losing to wendell willkie, wilkie quite remarkable because this year he is only 46 years old. that is about the age obama was. that is only 3 years older than jack kennedy was. he is a young man. and he has been on the verge of power and national notoriety even before the 1940. he is in asked district attorney. he is not even governor. he was the district attorney of manhattan. he was mr. district attorney, crime buster, the guy who went after the mob, put him in jail and went after the wall street guy, put them in jail. he did it all. he was spectacular as the district attorney but as governor he begins to trim his sails. he is looking at the polls and the candidate the same way. even though he is the purported front-runner and he is the front-runner in terms of delegates at this point, he is not particularly loved in the party or among the population but in this debate, he is the former district attorney. he is a great prosecutor. stassen was a prosecutor too but evidently the prosecutors in manhattan have to be tougher than the pro

the democratic nominee, al smith and sunday, the 1940 republican nominee, wendell willkie. store windows had pictures of my opponent and his associate on the new deal ticket. i don't know of any more appropriate place to put those pictures. >>> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. next, columbia university history professor eric foner discusses the rise of socialism in america in the early 20th century. and the socialist party of america presidential campaigns of eugene debbs, this class is an hour and ten minutes. >> this is a class at columbia university, a course called "the american radical tradition," and we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early femininism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now we're sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the industrial workers of the world, the women's suffrage movement coming to t

and sunday, the 1940 republican presidential nominee wendell willkie. >> as i was driving up the streets, at his vacant store window, had pictures of my opponent and his associates on t the new deal ticket. i don't know of anymore appropriate place to put those pictures. >> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to cspan.org. >>> next on history book shelf, author james chace talks about his book. "1912: wilson. roosevelt, taft and debs -- the election that changed the country". describes the personalities and

and former new york governor al smith, and sunday, the 1940 republican presidential nominee wendell willkie. >> as i was driving up the streets of hoboken, practically every store window, vacant store window has pictures of my opponent and his associates on the new deal ticket. i don't know of any more appropriate place to put those pictures. >> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to cspan.org. >> on saturday, c-span's issue spotlight looks at police and race relations. we'll show you president obama at the memorial service for police officers killed in dallas. a speech by senator tim scott about his own interactions with the police. in washington, d.c., police chief cathy lanier describing her agency's community policing. here's a preview. >> in the course of one year, i've been stopped seven times by law enforcement officers. not four. not five. not six. but seven times. in one year as an elected official. was i speeding sometimes? sure. but the vast majority of the time, i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood, or some other reason