Michael Beschloss Quotes
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
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First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also…
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So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would…
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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One…
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As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party…
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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until…
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The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
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The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different…
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place…
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Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.
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Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot…
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From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
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