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August 17, 1940. The ceremony of an acceptance speech is a tradition of our pioneer past—before the days of rapid communication. You all know that I accepted at Philadelphia the nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States. But I take pride in the traditions and not in change for the mere sake of overthrowing precedents.
6 de oct. de 2018 · Wendell Willkie ( Murray Becker / AP) October 6, 2018. I didn’t know my grandfather. He died in 1944, before I was born, felled by a heart attack at 52. This was but four years after his ...
Wendell Lewis Willkie (Elwood , 18 februari 1892 - New York, 8 oktober 1944) was een Amerikaanse advocaat en politicus. Hij is vooral bekend als de Republikeinse presidentskandidaat in 1940 . Levensloop [ bewerken | brontekst bewerken ]
Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize“The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and race in the febrile atmosphere of the world’s first truly global conflict.”—Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of ...
As the American people nervously watch this year’s presidential campaign descend into a rant of name calling and outright crudity that would be inappropriate in a saloon, it might be wise to pause and look back 75 years to a remarkable partnership between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie, opposing candidates in the 1940 election.
30 de mar. de 2020 · Zipp’s new book, “The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World,” chronicles a game-changing international trip Willkie took in 1942 as an informal envoy to Roosevelt and describes his resulting “one world” idea: That democratic, anti-imperial international cooperation, rather than nationalism and isolationism, would help position the U.S. as a true leader of the ...
22 de jul. de 2019 · Wendell Willkie waves to the crowd on his arrival for the ceremonies attending formal notification of his nomination by the Republican party as their candidate in the 1940 U.S. presidential ...
