34.C) Ike, the Last General, an interview with Bryan Gibby
Eisenhower is the last general to have become president. How did his time in the army influence his administration and what stamp did it leave on the presidency? Bryan Gibby, the deputy head of West...
6 Nov 20231h 15min
34.C) Isolationism v internationalism, Ike & the election of 1952, an interview with Chris Nichols
As the election of 1952 approached, one thing seemed certain - a staunch isolationist, senator Robert Taft, was going to be the GOP's presidential nominee and the next president of the United States. ...
16 Okt 20231h
34.B) Ike & the Suez Crisis, an interview with Jim Newton
There are October Surprises, and there are October crisis. Just days before Americans went to the polls to vote for Ike's 1956 reelection, his allies France, England, and Israel launched a surprise Oc...
2 Okt 202332min
34.A) Ike v McCarthyism, an interview with Larry Tye
Dwight Eisenhower ascended to the presidency when the United States was in the grips of a red scare - a red scare fanned by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. As McCarthy exploited the public fear to ste...
18 Sep 202335min
34.) Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight Eise...
4 Sep 20231h 1min
33.D) The blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of Harry S. Truman, an interview with Judge Richard Gergel
As millions of Americans demobilized after World War II, some were welcomed home as heroes, but others were attacked by their neighbors. When a white South Carolina sheriff attacked a black sergeant, ...
21 Aug 202336min
33.C) Truman and the Pendergast Machine, an interview with Jon Taylor
Before he was president, and before he formed the Truman Committee, Harry Truman was known primarily for one thing: his connection to an infamous Kansas City political machine - the Pendergast Machine...
7 Aug 202351min
33.B) Truman and the Bomb, an interview with D.M. Giangreco
"16 hours ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been...
24 Juli 202353min
