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Vor 5 Tagen · As Roosevelt refused to commit to either retiring or seeking reelection during his second term, supporters of Wallace and other leading Democrats such as Vice President John Nance Garner and Postmaster General James Farley laid the groundwork for their presidential campaigns in the 1940 election.
Vor 3 Tagen · The chief opposition to Roosevelt's candidacy came from Northeastern conservatives, Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas and Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic presidential nominee.
Vor 21 Stunden · IN his scathing appraisal, John Adams famously dismissed the role of vice president as 'the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.' Similarly, John Nance Garner, who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, succinctly captured the prevailing sentiment of the time, declaring the office as 'not worth a bucket of warm spit ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The keynote speaker, Nancy Beck Young, gave a fascinating talk on her work studying John Nance Garner (Vice President under FDR and former Speaker of the House). He was a colorful character during a pivotal time in American history, but very little scholarship has been done on him because he burned his papers after leaving office. Young described her process of piecing together Garner’s life ...
Vor 4 Tagen · (That’s why FDR’s first veep John Nance Garner famously said the job wasn’t worth a bucket of warm . . . spit). But it’s different in the modern era of mass communications: Now the No. 2 is...
Vor einem Tag · Veeps News. In, The, Spotlight: IN his scathing appraisal, John Adams famously dismissed the role of vice president as 'the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.'. Similarly, John Nance Garner, who served as vice president under Franklin D. IN his scathing appraisal, John Adams famously ...
Vor 4 Tagen · John Nance Garner was FDR's first Vice-President, Thomas Dewey ran against him in 1944 and Steve Early was FDR's Press Secretary.
