[cheering] >> we want willkie! we want willkie! we want willkie! ♪ >> i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. [applause] as your nominee, i will have an aggressive fighting campaign. [applause] >> we want willkie! >> the republicans in we want wi llkie. wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. these are some images of him on the campaign trail. we are here with david willkie, his grandson. i want you to introduce the audience to some of the fervor. as we're seeing from these iconic images from the 1940's campaign that surrounded your grandfather as he ran for president and tried to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. >> what an exciting time in the country. we are entering the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration. president roosevelt was right at the height of his power. that opened up a place for a dark horse candidate to come outside of the political

willkie. i want you to introduce the cabinet -- audiences of some of the fervor. your grandfather ran for president and try to defeat franklin delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. >> here we are just entering into the great depression, the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration. president roosevelt was right at the height of its power. that opened up a tie for a dark horse candidate. >> keep in mind the state of the republican party. it was a party defeated by roosevelt in 1932. what were the republicans looking for and why was your grandfather the person they chose? >> and nobody else had run for a third term before, going back to the time of george washington. when washington stepped down, no one had even dreamed of running for a third term for the presidency. when roosevelt announced that he did, it changed the whole dynamic of what was out there. certainly looking at europe, world war ii, the autopsies were -- the nazis were going over to n

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opponent in the general election was attorney and corporate executive window wealthy -- wn endell willkie. that is sunday on c-span. ♪ announcer: former first lady michelle obama and senator bernie sanders address the democratic national convention on monday. live coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, live streaming on c-span.org/dnc, or listen with their free c-span radio app. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. next, a visit to the smithsonian's national portrait gallery. a historian gives american history tba guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment. using images of early suffrage leaders, she shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionist and temperance movements. this is the first of a two-part series. kate: welcome to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. i'm the curator of "votes for women." for this exhibition i worked 3.5 years researching, finding all the objects. in the exhibition, we have about 124 objects, 63 portraits. rating the exhibition, hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the h

opponent in the general election was attorney and corporate executive window wealthy -- wn endell willkiethat is sunday on c-span. ♪ announcer: former first lady michelle obama and senator bernie sanders address the democratic national convention on monday. live coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, live streaming on

in 1940, they forced on the republicans a man named wendell willkie who wasn't even a republican. he had been a democrat, and he was kind of a 90-day wonder. they enlisted all the media. they did a lot of crooked things, and they put him over as the nominee and he ran for president on the republican ticket and lost to roosevelt. and then in 1944, they tried a governor, former governor of new york, named tom dewey, the one whom somebody called looking like the little man on the wedding cake. and he didn't do very well in 1944 and then came 1948 and they had the gall to nominate tom dewey again, which we the grass-roots were very much opposed to. but they forced him on us and there was a lot of opposition to the grassroots. i remember alice roosevelt longworth said you can't make a souffle rise twice, but at any rate, tom dewey was the candidate. and there were all kinds of wonderful issues that he could have talked about. the truman scandals, the korean war, the communist infiltration of our government, the alger hiss case, but tom dewey waged a me too campaign and he lost. and roo