"So the result was that as one approached……" — Michael Beschloss
"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 the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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Michael Beschloss
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12 Quotes by Michael Beschloss
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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…
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So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the…
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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated…
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As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in…
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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,…
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and…
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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…
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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…
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