who was henry kaiser? you may remember him if you're old enough as the industrialist who built the brick three ships of the liberty ships. when i sailed to korea during the korean war, which was a few years after world war ii, it was on a big to reship. it was seven bunks high and you didn't want to be on the bottom bunk because of the rocky ocean. you know what would happen to you there. in any case, those continued for many years to be used after the war. he was a brilliant man and industrialist, but no politician. there is no competition. roosevelt had to be the candidate. the candidate opposite him on the republican side was tom dewey, governor of new york. .. was made the nominee. he wanted to become one again in 1948 and 1952 and in 1952 became reasonably close to dwight eisenhower was the presidential candidate of the republicans then. so, roosevelt had a young man 20 years younger than he was and who looked energetic to run against him and he had to find a way to look energetic. his pictures didn't

who was henry kaiser? you may remember him as, if you were old enough, as the industrialist and shipbuilders who build the missionary ships and the liberty ships. when i sailed to korea during the korean war, which was a few years after world war ii, it was on a victory ship with seven bunks high and you didn't want to be on that autumn bunk, because of the rocky ocean, what would happen to you there. .. >> come other people wanted the job -- some other people wanted the job. the very conservative governor of ohio wanted the job, and they gave him the consolation prize of being the vice presidential candidate. robert taft, the senator from ohio, wanted the job, but nobody wanted him. he didn't get it. he had wanted it in 1940, and wendell willkie was made the nominee then. he wanted it again in 1948 and again in 1952, and in 1952 he came reasonably close, but dwight eisenhower was the presidential candidate for the republicans. a young man, 20 years younger than he was and who looked energetic, to run agai

dominates the scene of being mobilized for the process is the other main character in the book who was henry kaiser, the man that was in road construction, one of the builders of hoover dam, and he and his colleagues with six companies, people like stephen bechtel, the bechtel corporation , henry morris, the morrison knudsen, different knudsen, not my knudsen, a different guy. it's probably the largest construction firm in the world right now. morrison-knudsen. and another company, stone and webster became involved in the wartime construction. all of these, understanding the process of large scale enterprise, which the u.s. not to construct the docks and repair pearl harbor for a simple command to repair the military facilities but also to build ships. kaiser's liberty ship being the classic example of that at the time in which it took to build constantly shrink down to fewer and fewer days until finally by 1942 they could launch a liberty ship every five days if they had to. it's a great story about a lady that comes out to chris and one of the liberty ships at the portland yard up in portland ore