he takes the opening argument with the closing 20 minutes but is cutting 20 minutes over william jennings bryan. in the end of us older man opens the goldman and speaks the silverman closes but the second gold man stands up the speech is so disgraceful he brings up the civil war again. he excoriates cleveland and calls a day sectional argument and they say i wore the color of the south this is a sectional but of mankind is international in nature and basically they cheered jones on because they hate tillman so much but finally they're finding out of time with one more speaker and he is complaining about not having enough time and william jennings bryan over here is that and that gives him a chance to give that 30 minutes speech is a brilliant piece of work without any single loads but played out in his mind that he literally left chicago to pick up a speaking fee and literally when he finishes the speech to say you shall not press down on the about of mankind. holds out his arms and finishes and it is complete silence and he steps back and he thinks he has tanked they said the haul was silent a

and that is william jennings bryan to. who is the liberal to regret populace said we should have fdic insurance in taft said insurance krises moral hazard. those were the issues upon the table. so when the team than but italy passes to appease the community papers of the country because 85 percent will not go to the treasury. it is called the pores in spain to italy pays 2 percent with a cap of $500 this is back in the old days when they got interest for our money. these are not your customers and immediately it will become self sustaining with around 32 million in deposits. to say that system was extremely popular at was the immigrants. in and they recognize them from the countries they came from. and then they come with pamphlets. they fled the post office with all their money. even though they're on the 15 percent of the population. as the postal bank swelled with deposits and failing every year for three years. at the end of the great depression 1.2 billion dollars of deposits into this fund and this trend would have c

they don't count on william jennings bryan, charles dawes howl who conceives himself as a presidential candidate. he is at the time 36 years old. he's the youngest man ever nominated by either major political party for president to this day. and he's also the only candidate i can find who thinks of himself as a candidate that nobody else does the day before he was nominated as the candidate. >> host: how does he swing that? >> guest: they go to the convention and the two front runners on the democratic side are silver dick bland and missouri and uncle horace of iowa is a distant second. but there's a big battle over the platform vendor but he knows the platform issue is settled. there's an overwhelming majority of silver men at the convention. punishes going to be how many votes does each side gets and heads of the marketplace out. the last stand of the gold men at the convention. bryant is chosen as the man in charge of closing the debate on the floor. is completed by accident or the other six actions that to his being selected. in one of which would've gone a different direction he w

whether it is andrew jackson or william jennings bryan or george wallace, pat buchanan, you can namet, we've seen the populist before. into a trump is tapping real fear and anger out there amongst a lot of mostly working-class white americans who feel the american dream is left -- has left them by. to be able to graduate high school and make $15 an hour working in a factory. they are frustrated. is on the left and right. we are seeing a bit of it with bernie sanders. you can take it out on capitalism or blame it on globalism or blame immigration. you can blame automation. convergingactors are and america is changing and donald trump is tapping into this anger. . see him as exploiting it he is not a conservative. he is a populist. the fact that he is doing so well has to do with many factors. he is a great politician, great public relations, entertainment master. master of pr. has thatry frustration. this cultural and technological trend. would donald trump have been able to do this before any 24/7even -- before hour news? i also think it has something to do with our rhetoric and cult

when william jennings bryan talked about lincoln, republican-owned newspapers attacked viciously. withocrat cannot identify lincoln, because they are the party of the white south and 19th century repression. fdr is the guy who turns it around. i'm doing this chronologically. 015-2016.ng to 2 fdr was the first democratic candidate for president to win the african majority of votes and did not do so in 1932, in the midst of the depression. the african-american vote went to herbert hoover. the depression in the south was so powerful and stagnating. pollan-americans defied taxes and means testing and remained loyal. roosevelt defined himself as the opportunity, with eleanor pushing him along. 1940 -- 1939, a play opened up called, "abe lincoln in illinois." fdr like the play and called up the playwright. he said, enough of the plays and pulitzers, come to work for speechwriter. that is where the action is. he did. all of a sudden, the character offdr becomes the character lincoln in a play. i do not want to organize the world against this threat. please don't make me!" it was brillian

when wilson and william jennings bryan talked about lincoln, republican-owned newspapers like the chicago tribune and new york times attacked them viciously. a democrat cannot identify with lincoln, because they are the party of the white south and 19th century repression. fdr is the guy who turns it around. i'm doing this chronologically. i'm getting to 2015-2016. fdr was the first democratic candidate for president to win a majority of african-american votes. he did extraordinary is not do so in 1932, in the midst of the depression. the african-american vote went to herbert hoover. because of the depression in the south which was so powerful and stagnating. african-americans defied poll taxes and means testing and remained loyal to the party of lincoln. roosevelt defined himself as the man for equal opportunity, with eleanor pushing him along. in 1940 -- 1939, a play opened on broadway called, "abe lincoln in illinois." i'm sure many of you have seen the movie version. fdr like the play and called up the playwright. he said, enough of the plays and the pulitzers, come to work for me as

wilson, and particularly william jennings bryan, who became his first secretary of state campaign rhetorically in a way that might have led some very optimistic or naÏve latins to have expected to change. and yet, when wilson comes into office in 1913, he absolutely past dollar diplomacy, in fact, only intensifying it. intensifying it both in terms of economic and military penetration of what was called america's backyard. the reason, i think, is very simple. by 1913, united states had significant vested interests already in the region. and secondly, in a cost-benefit of applyinge cost and asserting and tightening american hegemony in the caribbean and central america were negligible compared to the benefits. , butenefits were integrate the costs were so low, both in expenses fortary the united states, blood and treasure, economic expenses, but also in terms of public union. public opinion in the united states, and united states congress, in the united states press, and also in europe. by 1913, and certainly by 1916, rejectionsseated any of american hegemony in at least north of the amazon. th

>> guest: throughout history i think andrew jackson would have had a popular candidate in william jennings bryan and george wallace. pat buchanan is sort of similar. the timing was better. mike huckabee and rick santorum who both won iowa in 2008 and 2012 respectively. they are conservative to a certain degree and they have to be completely shameless to go all in on it with a middle ground at the edges. but they fully exploited this moment in a way that nobody else could have. >> host: we also learned that nuance is no longer really valuable commodity for someone like rand paul who has nuanced positions and i for one was very grateful every time we got to share his point of view, even when we disagreed with it there didn't seem to be oxygen for people like rand paul. >> guest: that is an interesting question because in some ways it is cyclical. we've always had the rights of populist candidates and even through history, we had oscillating between the sort of intellectual elites and populism and it's gone back and forth. think for example you have people like andrew jackson who obviously were pop

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whether it is andrew jackson or william jennings bryan or george wallace, pat buchanan, you can name it, we've seen the populist before. into a trump is tapping real fear and anger out there amongst a lot of mostly working-class white americans who feel the american dream is left -- has left them by. to be able to graduate high school and make $15 an hour working in a factory. they are frustrated. is on the left and right. we are seeing a bit of it with bernie sanders. you can take it out on capitalism or blame it on globalism or blame immigration. you can blame automation. convergingactors are and america is changing and donald trump is tapping into this anger. . see him as exploiting it he is not a conservative. he is a populist. the fact that he is doing so well has to do with many factors. he is a great politician, great public relations, entertainment master. master of pr. has thatry frustration. this cultural and technological trend. would donald trump have been able to do this before any 24/7even -- before hour news? i also think it has something to do with our rhetoric and cu

tom: i will suggest william jennings bryan did a lot of shouting. not distribute it like modern tv. bob: roosevelt was worried that huey long, who did the same kind of populist rhetoric with a lot of shouting and anger, and could defeat him in the democratic primary. we have had periods in the past -- looking at it broadly, foreigners that are accustomed to dealing with liberal and conservative government in the u.s., they accommodate. the higherferent is level of uncertainty. one candidate will take one position one day and then another position the other day. is what is most troublesome. the allies have to rely on the united states. on it when oney guy says he will tear up what the administration did? francine: we have our share of crazies here in europe. the u.s. is that much more important because of your huge economy, and whoever you choose as president has a huge impact on world trade and the world economy, and at the end of the day, our growth in europe. i always grew up thinking that the u.s. was, because it was so much more streamlined, you

i'm thinking specifically of his piece on williams jennings bryan after his death. is sometimes i just find him a little too vicious and i find that disturbing and i'd like to hear your comment. thank you very much. >> guest: thank you very much. it's probably a point -- no, not probably -- definitely a point i should have made. and sometimes all of us who are writers and have our certain stylistic, shall we say, quirks, go too far with them. i agree with you. menken went too far. what he said about bryan he was entitled to say, but to say it as an obituary was to go too far, and you're wright, what so it great about reading menkin, he savages the pom possessty of politicians which means he is always on the edge of going too far and you're right there, times when he goes over the edge. >> host: robert young, e-mail: earlier you allowed that you wouldn't trust writings by either republicans or democrats, presumably on historical subjects. then a bit later you reference ayn rand, freudian slip or in support of her or view in opposition. further, is at all possible to

whether it is andrew jackson or william jennings bryan or george wallace, pat buchanan, you can namee've seen the populist before. into a trump is tapping real fear and anger out there amongst a lot of mostly working-class white americans who feel the american dream is left -- has left them by. to be able to graduate high school and make $15 an hour working in a factory. they are frustrated. is on the left and right. we are seeing a bit of it with bernie sanders. you can take it out on capitalism or blame it on globalism or blame immigration. you can blame automation. convergingactors are and america is changing and donald trump is tapping into this anger. . see him as exploiting it he is not a conservative. he is a populist. the fact that he is doing so well has to do with many factors. he is a great politician, great public relations, entertainment master. master of pr. has thatry frustration. this cultural and technological trend. would donald trump have been able to do this before any 24/7even -- before hour news? i also think it has something to do with our rhetoric and cultural