the term tammany long after the demise of tammany hall is still part of our political vocabulary when it comes to corruption. tammany knew this, and they knew they could not simply go on conducting business as usual, and so they began a kind of reform effort of their own. the fall of boss tweed was actually a key transition point not just in tam many many -- tamm ark ny trying to spruce up its image, but in a shift of non-irish catholic leadership to irish catholic leadership. the key figure here on your outline here is honest john kelly who rose to power as the first irish catholic boss in new york in the 1870s. kelly was a longtime tammany operative. he knew how it worked. but he had been ill and out of the country during the worst of the tweed scandals, and so he had a relatively clean record. now, again, most reformers weren't necessarily buying the honest john label. but the emergence of this irish catholic leader only heightens the ethnic tension. it's bad enough when a scotch presbyterian like tweed was leading this irish cathic rabble. now the irish catholics are in the leader

and the image that you have here, which is very much an image of tammany hall, certainly suggests evil and corruption. again, from the perspective of that first political culture, that is what tammany is. evil and corruption. the reading that you have for today, however, gives a different, more positive view from within the culture itself. so we will go over some of the most relevant history of tammany hall in the middle of the 20th century. and then after that we will look at some selections of tammany hall to give you what you could say is the response from within that second political culture. the first political culture, looking from the outside. this is all corruption. this is destroying american politics and american virtue. from within a culture, no, it's not destroying american politics or virtue. it's just a different kind of virtue. a virtue very much rooted in community. again, writing from that first political culture. anti catholic and anti irish, but all that being said, the charges of corruption, that tammany is corrupt, these were not unfounded. in fact, thomas nast fir

and people suggested accused him of being a puppet of the big tammany hall party machine in new york.when he lost in a landslide to herbert hoover. so herbert hoover wins in 19208. that february on st. valentine's day was when the happened brittle and spectacular murder that the country had seen. all capone was largely thought that would have been the cause of it. he said no, no, i was in miami when all this happens i f was on vacation. in fact as the district attorney's office being questioned at the very moment. they never did find out who did it. that wasal s another thing that really started pushing public opinion against prohibition. well, took office the next month and then october stock market crashed. that was the beginning of the great depression. government, everybody's funds dried up, unemployment rose the government's funds were getting very dry. and hoover, when he took office promised to study prohibition and eventually a report came out that saidut it's not really working, it's not enforceable. but we think we should keep doing it and he said that sounds fine to me. a w

strong position as a wet and peopleim suggested her accused m of being just a puppet of the big tammany hallparty machine in new york. he lost in a landslide to herbert hoover. herbert hoover wins in 1928. that february on st. valentine's day was when the valentine's day massacre happened in chicago. it was the most brutal and spectacular murder that the country had seen. al capone was largely thought to have been the cause of it but he said no, no, i was in miami when all this happen. i was on vacation. inic fact, i was in the district attorney's office being questioned at the very moment at hand so they never did find out who did it. but that was another thing that started pushing public opinion against prohibition. hoover took office the next month and then october the stock market crashed and that was the beginning of the great depression. the government everybody's funds dried-up, unemployment rose, the government funds were getting very dry. hoover, when he took office, promised to study prohibition but eventually a report came out the said it's not really working, it's not enforceable

he it's almost like he is almost like a tammany hall correct kind of idea. 101 there is a nod to washington direct line. yeah. so there's also, you know is display amicable, most despicable qualities the cruelty was also in evidence. tell us what happened after the helicopter crash and what he said about the deceased executives. so a bunch of trump executives died in a helicopter crash in new jersey, i think it was on their way back from a meeting at trump tower. two things happened afterwards. one was that somehow an item got placed. i believe it was on page six, suggesting that trump himself was supposed to be on this helicopter, which nobody believed because it was a least at least helicopter. and he didn't like to fly those himself. roger stone has insisted it really was true. so do it. that what you will and the the widows and and one other girlfriend, her fiance, say there were three people involved of the the dead men were really aghast at this suggestion that trump himself was somehow in danger and he later on started to blame his his financial woes at the casinos on one of those de

this is the new tammany regiment raised by hall and of course the symbol of tammany's chief and you've got a monument there and people say, okay, 42nd new york. when that was put up the dedications come out for that. and they preach the justice and righteousness of the union cause. and the people who directed that monument where the event runs of the regiment. and they said, yes, that's right, we were in the right and it was a moral cause and it was marvelous and wonderful and it's a memorial to our troop. all right, that generation dies off. followed by another. then their grandchildren of their soldiers. they come to gettysburg and look at that monument and they say, that's a monument to the 42nd of new york, my grandfather fought in the 42nd of new york. they don't really have quite the fizz of the things the original soldiers did. they're looking at it as a monument. and then their generation passes off and their grandchildren come to gettysburg. on account of gettysburg, with a guidebook in hand and they say, hey, we are is where the 42nd new york stood. there is the monument. it'