28.E.) Wilson's Wives, an interview with Paul Brandus

28.E.) Wilson's Wives, an interview with Paul Brandus

Woodrow Wilson's wives had a tremendous impact on his presidency. His first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, died the week World War I broke out in Europe, leaving the president so depressed at a moment of crisis that he told aids he wished someone would shoot him. Less than a year later, he was over it, and instead obsessed with his courtship of Edith Bolling Galt, sometimes writing her three letters a day. When a stroke crippled Wilson in the final years of his presidency, it was Edith who cared f...

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32.B.) FDR's death & the history of presidential mourning, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky & Matthew Costello

32.B.) FDR's death & the history of presidential mourning, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky & Matthew Costello

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them," - FDR on Bill of Rights Day, 1941. ~~~ Every president's death is mourned differently. What d...

3 Huhti 202348min

32.A.) FDR and the New Deal, an interview with Eric Rauchway

32.A.) FDR and the New Deal, an interview with Eric Rauchway

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, July 2, 1932, upon accepting the Democratic nomination for president ~~~ Did the New Deal get the ...

20 Maalis 202357min

32.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

32.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." - Franklin Roosevelt ~~~ When FDR was sworn in on March 4, 1933, the nation, and the world, were in dire straights. Nation's around the ...

6 Maalis 202358min

31.C) Herbert Hoover & the origins of The Great Depression, an interview with Robert McElvaine

31.C) Herbert Hoover & the origins of The Great Depression, an interview with Robert McElvaine

"The fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis," - Herbert Hoover, on the eve of the Great Depression, Oct. 25, 1929 ...

20 Helmi 202358min

31.B) Herbert Hoover, the first businessman president, an interview with David Hamilton

31.B) Herbert Hoover, the first businessman president, an interview with David Hamilton

"It simply comes to this: men hate me more after they work for me than before. They don't need think they are coming to a snap. They're coming to a perfect hell and I am the devil." - Herbert Hoover, ...

6 Helmi 202356min

31.A.) The political evolution of Herbert Hoover, an interview with Thomas Schwartz

31.A.) The political evolution of Herbert Hoover, an interview with Thomas Schwartz

"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.” - Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover en...

16 Tammi 202358min

31.) Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

31.) Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

"In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land." - Herbert Hoover. ~~~ Herbert Hoover made his fortune as a mining engineer, made his name as a humanitarian lea...

2 Tammi 202357min

30.A.) Calvin Coolidge turns PR into Presidential Relations, an interview with David Greenberg

30.A.) Calvin Coolidge turns PR into Presidential Relations, an interview with David Greenberg

History remembers Calvin Coolidge as "Silent Cal," but the notoriously quiet president was also an early adopter of emerging forms of mass media, such as radio and motion picture. Join me as I talk...

19 Joulu 202254min

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