is two hours. this is american history television. i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your costs and that your cause and that of democracy. [applause] i expect the republicans wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. these are some damages some images of him on the campaign trail. we are here with david willkie. i want you to introduce the cabinet audiences of some of the fervor. your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. he was always interested in politics, even from growing up in his hometown. he talked about it in his life, in his childhood with his parents, when they got to college it was always an integral part of its life. its life. we are in russellville, indiana, one of the homes of wendell willkie. russia wilhville, indiana, one of the homes of wendell willkie. homes of wendell willkie. this is
i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and that of democracy. [applause] the republicans wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. some images of him on the campaign trail. we are here with david willkie. i want you to introduce the audiences of some of the fervor. your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. what an exciting time in the country. here we are just entering into the great depression, the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration. president roosevelt was right at the height of its power. that opened up a tie for a dark horse candidate. keep in mind the state of the republican party. it was a party defeated by roosevelt in 1932. what were the republicans looking for and why was your grandfather the person they chose? and nobody else had run for a third term before, go
Perhaps no other Irish American served his country more daringly, yet Donovan’s largely clandestine service to America is still greatly under-appreciated.
i was elected 20 times and defeated twice. i ve worked for the county, i ve worked for the city. i have worked for the state. and you will probably remember that i tried to get a job down in washington but something happened to me at that time. [laughter] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] the contenders continues with wendall wilkie. [cheering] we want willkie! we want willkie! we want willkie! i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. [applause] as your nominee, i will have an aggressive fighting campaign. [applause] we want willkie! wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. these are some images of him on the campaign trail. we are here with david willkie, his grandson. i want you to introduce the audience to some of the fervor. as we re seeing from these ic
we want willkie! wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. these are some images of him on the campaign trail. we are here with david willkie, his grandson. i want you to introduce the audience to some of the fervor. as we re seeing from these iconic images from the 1940 s campaign that surrounded him. your grandfather ran for president and tried to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. here we are just entering into the great depression, the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration. president roosevelt was right at the height of his power. that opened up a place for a dark horse candidate to come outside the political spectrum. keep in mind the state of the republican party. it was a party defeated by roosevelt in 1932. he defeated herbert hoover and another. what were the republicans looking for and why was your grandfather the person they chose? and nobody else had run for a third term before, going