one is the emergence of henry wallace. wallace has been foursquare against segregation.eally going much further than the democratic party is willing to go. fdr provided public relief jobs and such for blacks, as he did for whites, during the great depression. herbert hoover really helped turn him off, i will say. which is another story. but truman, truman is looking at an early poll which shows 90% of the blacks are favoring wallace. 90%. he also is facing a problem on the republican front, where tom dewey has a very liberal, pro-, civil rights antidiscrimination record in new york. the first antidiscrimination law in the country is that when i zack and new york advance determination. yesterday someing. one of the things he does is put forward a mission to look into civil rights issues. he looks into a wide range of things. that leaves the south to revolt. that issomething we haven't really talked about too much. the dixiecrat revolt. the document which i talked about earlier, which was in the candace -- campaign strategy -- the deep south wasn't prepared to take anythin

. >> host: did henry wallace run for president? >> guest: certainly did. it is almost like one of the e inaback stoes ofhisec. gr maogaldg match between the wallace wing and the truman mainstream wing of the democratic party. wallace nt for the vice prenndnru trero escyy rr trm ost pum he cabinet as secretary of commerce and give se speeches in t distincts re garden which puts m.n ply hub would be upset. wallace is upset. he falls into the hands of the communist pa usa, progressive y ragtran ballt in elon b punishim. >> host: what role did dwight eisenhower play in the 1948 election? d cveone ahenouee theov everyone loves dwight eisenhower. they didn't know whether he wa a republican or democrat or liberal or conservative but they knew he s a neral and they kne uld puanntdrim meanat gss-r urdhado ith yend rli go on their own. the leadership wants to do with theiown thing whethert is adipt rehe ,he deatoniohi an amazing nothing. a week before the convention there is a coloa ocra,thn ssanrourha eval pdentl candidate, big city bosses, liberals like hubert hum

henry wallace never makes the ballot in oi ost:id somrmonwh ectol s 93 ueye ehd imr trteh folks who have brought this up. he's a late comer to the game. he just sort of meanders in. he shows up, this is the daer showingp toes. becaimafui.o heeginning of the year, truman is putting up the proposals for civil rights. there are meetingscalld. fianri hfh seatst e tei k w -- someone who had a job i washington with the library of ngress. the control of the currency or something, they write bo oue ct cge u brinthesguysiln ybalyhied in ysa.t v thwn into the electoral college. they might have turned that off, except for tomewey did not carry out his part about giving up ectorvt t re'sherehe stry s lwd. y la rh ev lon harry truman -- actually, print and roovelt had not even one single elecl vo f oi h toiny osou sorymas rg s .. >> caller: i've heard some conflicting stories about how that happened. for example, i hed that when they dropped walcehty rfeoskoel o te he wanted his vice president douglas, but he was too liberal. th didtow oo pi, pedji b. mmrn a h umeimis an t last minute, they changed t

e mainstam and tewh thhemmtst t mat rt th the mcgovern campaign and mcgovern was supporter of henry wallace, the communist party progressive candidate in himlf, d aedm anatgh h pot s avat grassroots year in year out moement. ther has never been one since i became ansti untithaary. prmst erveve hevel likes, nlike leftist. they have real lives and they are going into the private ctor whenou d aines yon't nt taliete od cat ou'twa t vo etgske politics. so i didn't think for a while that it would ever happen but it has happened. bee now bear in tzipis and fascist arrangement with the state was being threatened. that is what they think about the unions eye a sanglol t onh b e.avtheihand eyd rpti ch of ay thaihearof hei members to be totally corrupt. they have absolute contempt for the democratic process. they pick eft, d th gr w crvese thes and that is the bright spot. i think that obama has put fear inrdy icwh dend nia hee rpym, thstfndividual rights and who will hold onto those american values against the left. so i'm expectingig things to [aus iytl >> thank you. forore foioou hisorz of r oe pe

another person who wanted the job was henry wallace who was vice president but he wasn't going to be given the task of remaining on as vice presidential candidate. he was considered too flaky and that is still another story. a conservative in the south wanted the job was harry bird of virginia. the elder harry byrd. there were two in the senate. in the democratic national convention in mid july 1944 harry byrd carried three 7 states in the convention but when roosevelt carried all the other states the chairman of the convention samuel jackson, the senator from indiana said i would like to declare this unanimous. so of course of all the others changed their votes and he was voted unanimously as presidential candidate for a fourth term. he couldn't get anybody interested but he wanted henry kaiser to be a candidate possibly to succeed him. henry kaiser had no political ambitions. no one knew whether he was a democrat or a republican. who was henry kaiser? you may remember him if you are old enough as the industrialist and shipbuilder who built the victory ships and the liberty ships. w

she was a huge minority of t kind of campus where henry wallace and the country club republicans ofouse d sh was re sckh dlr um w eal cause for her, and she loved sherman and i think in some sense she patterned her public life on that. she wanted to be a planspoken, midwestern american, you o d e mdee intellectual influence of franz nyman who had been, an Émigre from nazi germany who have been involved in the vladimir republic. he introdud her in some sense whabecae e preoccupation which is the study of totalitarianism, and he let her see -- he was working even though he was in america i think a an american citizen at ths pnt. waswng wthe effort to democratize germany and helping write the constitution. he had access to a lot of credit papers and he let jeane see papers abut really thenner rk o is wa ocie r thheerll got over and at the same time she had gotten to know the iseli representative to the ane maes overh there about, learning about the death camps and that sort of thing, all of which had just been bursting into the she bark onrey wh wst americans. i w tdend tarianism and reall

graduate school and one kind of continuous experience was the thndf leftists on campus were for henry wallace, and the country club republicans, of course, were for dewey. and she was here stuck in the middle for truman. aneed tans a real causeer, i k enhe patterned her public life on that of truman. she wanted to be a plain spoken, midwestern american, you know? and she camender t no whaehe af emigre from nazi germany who had been involved in the vie mar republic. and he introduced her in some sense to what became her feloprupn h e titni dheunot her see -- he was working, even though he was in america i think as an american citizen at this point, he was working with the new effort tkiofemti a hinte - rmanlpgri constitution, and he had access to a lot of private papers, and he let jeane see papers about, um, reay the kind of inner workings of naziism. and this was a shocking experience for her thathe an tammehe,o um, gotten to know the israi representative to the u.n. just because he was the father ofne of her class mates. th yowboyomsessnsr caanistfhi all of which was just then bursting into

she was in a huge minority of the kind of leftists on campus, worked for henry wallace, and it a real cause for her, and she loved truman, and i thi in some since she patterned her public life on that of truman. miwenri andto be p me uer the intellectual fluence of franz kyman, who had been involved in the republic, and he introduced her liongcupation, which is the study of totalitarianism. and he let her see he was working -- even thoug he was in america, as an amerin citen at thisoi wng t effort to kind of democratize germany. he had access to private papers and he let jeanne see papers about the kind ofnnors aziindhis w a ki experience for her that she never really got over, and at the same time she had gotten to know the israeli representati to the u.n.,ust of hlasstehe o many sessions over there about learning about the death camps and this sort of thing, all o which was just then bursting into the consciousness of most americans, and she embarkedn reallyhatas h life0s wk, un totalitarianism and really became almost intellectuallybsessed with it, and knoyman himself was kind of a

the mcgovern campaign -- mcgovern was a supporter of henry wallace. the party in 1948. i watched them take over the democratic party. that taught me how important it is to have a grassroots, year in and year out, movement. there has neverbeen one since i became a conservative. until the tea party. i am hoping -- the problem with conservatives is that they have real lives, unlike the others. when you are doing a business come you don't want to alienate anybody. you want every customer that you can get. so you don't want to get involved in messy things like politics. i didn't think for a while but it would ever happen, but it has happened. isconsin, i mean, the left declare war on scott walker. because of the incipient fascist arrangement with the state, it was being threatened. the unions have a stranglehold on the state. they have their hands on the public purse for it in and found that their political machines out of taxpayer dollars. they raise the salaries of their members, it is totally corrupt. they have absolute contempt for the democratic process. they picked the