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Vor einem Tag · The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II, which ended the following year. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term.
Vor einem Tag · But rather than announce the formation of a Labor Party, he endorses the Republican, Wendell Willkie. In one case, and maybe this is apocryphal, but it gets repeated in the interview, there’s dead silence in a union hall packed with hundreds of workers, and then someone walks up to the radio and throws it out the window.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Eleanor Roosevelt/Wendell Willkie Forum will host, as its first speaker, Michael Meeropol, elder son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He is speaking at the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis at 410 Oak Grove St. on Tuesday, July 23, at 8 p.m. The forum is free. There will be a cash bar before and after.
Vor 20 Stunden · He probably won’t remind us that the Republican party, with its 1940 nomination of Wendell Willkie, also repudiated America First. But we now need to confront the fact that this once happily rejected tradition—a toxic brew of isolationism, nativism, and know-nothingism—has come back to life with a vengeance.
Vor 3 Tagen · In 1940, Republican candidate Wendell Willkie did not challenge Roosevelt on his implicit consent to Stalin’s invasions in Eastern Europe while sending American boys to fight the Germans. Once he did mention it, the voters “instinctively knew his peace pledges were just campaign oratory.”. Willkie also barely made mention of Roosevelt’s ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Wendell Willkie, who would go on to become the Republican Party's 1940 presidential candidate, was a Democratic delegate in 1924, and he supported the proposal to condemn the KKK. The bitter fight between the McAdoo and Smith delegates over the KKK set the stage for the nominating ballots to come. Most of the ensuing ballots followed ...
Vor 20 Stunden · The Presidential Election Of 2024 is the most significant since the Presidential Election Of 1940, when Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a primarily isolationist Republican Party and its nominee, Wendell Willkie, who like Donald Trump, had zero government experience. However, Willkie was not as reckless and dangerous as Trump is, although most of the Republican Party was strongly unconcerned about ...
