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Hace 2 días · As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an ...
Hace 3 días · 1940 election. President Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election. The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the ratification of the 22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796.
Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 1 día · 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 ...
Rural farmers were an important part of the New Deal Coalition and benefitted greatly from New Deal programs. Why, then, did the Farm Belt vote for FDR's opponent Wendell Willkie in 1940?
Hace 4 días · Now as then, we have noninterventionists pitted against hawks, Jacksonian populists against internationalists, an updated version of the party’s old Robert Taft wing against the contemporary equivalents of Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey.
Hace 3 días · mander. Wendell L. Willkie, util ities executive, also is gaining some backers, but as yet has no definitely pledged flrst-ballot votes. See Vice Presidential Bid. Much of the Democratic vice presidential talk continues to cen ter around Senator Byrnes of South Carolina. Many Senators inter preted Paul V. McNutt’s statement that the President ...
