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A secret ‘campaign within the campaign’ to act as odbudsman for campaign rhetoric may have helped Clinton win in 1992.  Other successful campaigns should follow.

A bit about Sargent Shriver’s legacy, his running for Vice President in 1972 and good and bad moments, including a surprising connection to Joe Biden’s future.

Since we talked about people not running for President in this cast we talk about Mario Cuomo and address that topic.  I tell  a Leftover story about Henry Clay we didn’t get into on the main cast.  About his two Alabama letters.    Also I get into the ‘willl he leave?” question and why we may all be focusing on the wrong thing.

Was there a room where Warren G. Harding was selected for the GOP nomination in 1920.  It might be more story than substance.  But what about George Harvey’s room in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago.  Well… We look into this, and also look at other stories of Presidential elections.

Lyndon Johnson surprised the nation and some  of his supporters and administration officials when he said he would not seek, nor accept the nomination for President in 1968.  But did he mean it?  New evidence has surfaced that Lyndon Johnson may very well have been ready to swoop in and get his party’s nomination.  We look at it, in that My History Can Beat Up Your Politics way, from all angles.  For Patreons and premium subscribers, this is the special episode of ‘Draft Lyndon’ about the 1968 Convention, and perhaps, LBJ’s plans to run

Who was the first VP? John Adams.  Who was the first Veep?  Truman’s VP Alben Barkley was the first to use the knickname for the job, Veep, coined by his grandson.  We talk about Barkley in this episode that is a preview of our Vice Presidents Podcast

More from Rick Perlstein about the 1980 election; did the hostage issue really have the impact that most think it did (including Bruce, up until hearing this).  Also Walt Whitman and his use of The United States ‘are’ and the United States ‘is.’  Whatever Ken Burn’s Civil War series and other sources may say, the use of ‘The United States Is’ was there before the Civil War, and Whitman uses both in different contexts.  Plus Washington and the Flu.

Worth a re-listen to my post-2016 episode for premium subscribers, with my thoughts of what happened and what might happen, now four years later.

I quoted Harold Wilson but it’s actually Harold MacMillan who was the Prime Minster of the UK who said one of my favorite quotes ‘Events dear man, events.” Certainly true of 2020.

We look at the Trump tax return case and the Faithless Elector cases recently decided by the Supreme Court.  Also Howard Cosell and his view of politics in 1976, some unused material from the 1976 Convention Cast.