With the winds of war sweeping Europe and America barely recovering from the Great Depression, the roiling topic leading into the 1940 Presidential election was whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt would step aside or stick his tipped cigarette in the eye of the two-term tradition that all Presidents had honored, following the example set by George [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Dubious Moments in History’
March 6, 2008
Alice…Ten Feet Tall
There’s a lot of talk about the testicles that Hillary Clinton will need to bring to the Presidency if elected. A woman has to be tough. When you’re leading The Free World and dealing with an All-Star Rogues’ Gallery of Kim Jong-Il, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the 6′ 4″ diabetic George Bush stopped talking [...]
March 2, 2008
Slogan’s Run
You wouldn’t know it now in the age of bland, marketing-driven Presidential campaign slogans like “Change You Can Believe In”, “Yes We Can”, “Putting People First”, “Building A Bridge To The 21st Century” and even going back a few decades to “Morning In America”, “Nixon’s The One”, and “A Kinder, Gentler America”, but there was [...]
January 19, 2008
Dubious Moments in Primary History: “New Hampshire – 1972: ‘The Canuck Letter’”
There’s no crying in baseball, as Tom Hanks once said, and since there’s no baseball in Maine (excepting, of course, the great Irv Ray), Maine Senator Edmund Muskie apparently never got the memo.
The 1972 Presidential Race and possibly the course of history turned on March 7, 1972, when Democratic Presidential front-runner Ed Muskie held a [...]
