would roll over in his grave to be compared to william jennings bryan. in a fundamental way they were aiming for the same thing. william jennings bryant became the spokesman of the populist movement in the 1890'ss and at the heart of the populist movement was a belief that the financial system of the united states was tilted against farmers specifically. ordinary people generally but farmers specifically. they had a very specific complaint, namely falling prices for farm products. the price of corn went down by half between the 1870s at 1890s. cotton was a little more. this was a very serious problem for farmers because farmers typically operate under conditions of that and debtors are seriously disadvantaged when prices fault. if you are a $100 when week is $1 a bushel you have to grow 100 bushels to pay it back. but if it is $0.50 you need 200 bushels to pay it back. the fundamental goal for the trick behind managing a money-supply is to get the money supply to grow at the same rate as the economy as oil hole. if you do then prices overall will remain s

william jennings bryan who had been the democraticwood nominee for president and who woodrow had insulted publicly years before so she range to have a very intimate dinner with bright and and sure enough woodrow found that he liked brian and they spoke from the same platform after that.im she did as she had done beforeke continue to see mary as a family friend. woodrow began to traveler of the country making speeches following the progress very closely sending telegrams and at one. point* said stop saying you are not running for president and makes you foolish and he stopped. sure enough he became the democratic nominee in june of 1912 with the help of brian but that summer when the republicans held there convention, william howard taft was opposed by former president roosevelt taft won and roosevelt was so bitter that he formed a third party, the progressive for bull moose party and was seen as a bigger competitor to wilson and was so popular. one of roosevelt's adviserspopu said we managed to obtain some letters. you should publish them and this campaign will be over. and roosevelt's sa

the cowardly lion is even compared to william jennings bryan. who knows? it is a theory. they were on their way to oz, and it was it who was in this case grover cleveland in the white house. at least the wizard agreed to see them eventually. however disappointing the visit turned out to be. grover cleveland did not extend that courtesy. host: what is happening in 1932? guest: the depths of the great depression. 25% unemployment of the nation's economic outlook down 40% in four years. there is a real sense of despair taking hold. hopelessness. not only about the president, but about the future. america's world war ii -- i am jumping the gun. america's world war i veterans organized to campaign for the payment of a bonus that had been promised them in 1945. they wanted it now. it began in portland, oregon. across continental march. it grew. eventually, by the time what became known as the bonus expeditionary force camped out in the anacostia flats south of the capital across the river. there were close to 20,000 people. they were here for a couple of months. they came to lo

william jennings bryan did not. guess no one has ever worked it. >> most people, at least in my party, most would say bill clinton did not win on class warfare, but they would say that the president presented economic choices for people and said we are on one side and the opponent is on the other. it may sound like class warfare to the person on the other side, but they are a pretty clever crowd. they will not run down a rabbit hole that does not test well. the president is a very good campaigner. he is now getting into campaign mode, starting to draw the choice. most of the choices he is drawing for the public is 60% on the choice that the president is offering america. he is very careful to highlight those things. anybody who sells the president short is, i think, making a big mistake here. >> before we go to questions from the audience, let's just have a few minutes on congress and what will happen there. this congress is totally dysfunctional. it has the lowest approval ratings since the polling had begun. what