A #history #podcast exploring the successes, setbacks, and scandals of US #presidents, in order, each in 60 minutes or less. Hosted by @KennyRyan27
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Good news, everyone
I started an account on BlueSky: KennyRyanAustin.bsky.social
Because heck naw I’m not coming back to this platform 🔥
Find me there 🦋
Deleting this app from my phone for a while
These is just way too much toxic disinformation and hate around the Israeli-Palestinian struggle right now
Ep. 34C of APH is now available!
Should the United States be an isolationist nation, or an internationalist one? @CMcKNichols discusses the question on the ballot during the 1952 election and Ike’s role in keeping the US globally engaged in the Cold War.
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Want to hear more from Chris? His book on the election of 52’ is still a few years away, but his other books, including “Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age” are available now
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Just wrapped up a great interview with Col. Bryan Gibby, the deputy head of West Point’s history department, about how Eisenhower’s time at the academy, in the Army, and during WWII shaped his leadership style and administration.
BONUS episode!
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In 2022, I appeared at the Intelligent Speech conference & gave a talk on the political double cross that saved American democracy. I’m publishing that today as a promo for my Nov 4 appearance on the 2023 Intelligent speech conference!
This year’s talk will look at how the Supreme Court beat out Presidents, Congress, and the states to win the power to interpret the constitution.
Learn more about Intelligent Speech & buy tickets with the code “abridged” here:
intelligentspeechonline.com
Just wrapped up a great interview with Stephen Fagin, the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, about the JFK assassination
My episode on JFK will publish Nov. 20
The Fagin interview will publish Nov. 22, the 60-year anniversary of JFK’s murder.
Ep. 34B of APH is now available!
There are October surprises and October Crisis. Jim Newton discusses Ike’s response to a plot by England, France, and Israel to seize the Suez Canal by force. How did Ike stop it from spreading into a wider conflict?
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#OTD in #Presidential #History
Sept. 24, 1957 - President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
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Ep. 34A of APH is now available!
What do you do about a political demagogue? Truman, Ike, & 3 future presidents grappled with that question when Sen Joe McCarthy turned a red scare into a witch hunt. Author Larry Tye discusses the McCarthy era.
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Want to read more from Tye? Pick up “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” at a book store near you
harvard.com/book/demagogue/
#OTD in #Presidential #History
Sept. 18, 1793 - President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the future U.S. Capitol building.
A group of masons was there in full regalia, so we’ll probably get a National Treasure movie about it someday.
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#OTD in #Presidential #History
Sept. 15, 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson ordered the “Punitive Expedition” out of Mexico, where it had been searching for Pancho Villa ever since he raided the US in a bid to draw the US into the ongoing Mexican Civil War.
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Next book on the block - Reagan: The Life
By @hwbrands
What are the first 3 things that come to mind when you think of Ronald Reagan?
Mind blown
Ronald Reagan's first post-college job (aside from summer lifeguard) was, wait for it...
Sports radio announcing
He did the live play-by-play for Big 10 games for a small town radio station during the depths of the depression. Pay was $5 a game + bus fare.
#OTD in #Presidential #History
Sept. 12, 1962 - President JFK rallied the US behind the Apollo program with a speech at Rice University, saying:
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
#OTD in #Presidential #History
Sept. 9, 1842 - President John Tyler vetoed a national bank bill supported by Henry Clay & the Whig party, which responded by kicking Tyler out of the party! The Whigs were soon burning Tyler in effigy.
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