gorkay
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« on: August 21, 2007, 04:17:50 PM » |
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It's Willkie with two L's, by the way.
Willkie was a good man but a rank amateur as a candidate. He wasn't even a politician, actually-- I don't think he had ever run for elective office before. If not for the anti-third-term sentiment and the turning of the farm-belt states against FDR, he probably would have lost as badly as Hoover or even Landon. I think it's neat that, after the election, FDR sent him on an around-the-world trip as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. (about which Willkie wrote a best-selling book, One World). Imagine G.W. Bush doing that with Gore or Kerry. Just goes to show you how things have changed-- for the worse.
I may have voted for Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 election (you'll know what I'm talking about if you've read Philip Roth's book The Plot Against America).
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