Report Outline
President Roosevelt and New Deal in 1936 Campaign
Borah, Hoover, and Republican Party Liberalization
Candidacy of Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas
Knox of Illinois and Vandenberg of Michigan
Dickinson of Iowa and Other Compromise Candidates
President Roosevelt and New Deal in 1936 Campaign
The Republican national convention will meet on June 9 in Cleveland to formulate a party platform and nominate a candidate for the presidency. Two weeks later, on June 23, the Democratic national convention will open in Philadelphia. Although the nominations will not be made until four months hence, the 1936 campaign, which Postmaster General Farley predicted before the Democratic National Committee on January 9 would be “the bitterest and certainly the dirtiest political struggle that any of us here can remember,” is already in progress. It was formally opened on the Democratic side at the Jackson Day dinners on January 8. Senator Borah (R., Ida.) became the first publicly announced Republican candidate on February 4, when he made known his intention to enter the Ohio primaries. The presidential aspirations of Borah and several other Republicans, however, were already a matter of common knowledge. A more active stage of the campaign will be reached next month when New Hampshire on March 10 holds a primary election for choice of delegates to the national conventions. Similar elections will follow in succeeding weeks in more than a dozen other states.
President Roosevelt and New Deal in 1936 Campaign
Despite threatened insurgency on the part of Alfred E. Smith and prominent Democrats of the American Liberty League and despite the opposition of Governor Talmadge of Georgia and a group of southern Democrats, the renomination of President Roosevelt by the Philadelphia convention is regarded as a foregone conclusion. No President since the Civil War, willing to run for a second term, has been denied renomination with the exception of Johnson in 1868 and Arthur in 1884, both of whom had succeeded to the office from the vice-presidency. The 1936 campaign, moreover, will revolve around the New Deal as the leading issue. The Democratic party could scarcely enter the contest without the principal architect of that edifice at the head of its ticket.
In a resolution adopted on January 9 the Democratic National Committee reaffirmed its “unanimous and unfaltering loyalty to our great President” and congratulated the nation on its opportunity “to ratify the acts of the administration that has lifted us from the depths of depression and despair to the highland of hope and confidence.” In mid-December the Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee had asserted in a speech at Brooklyn, New York, that Roosevelt would receive as many electoral votes in 1936 as in 1932, when he carried all but six states. |
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Presidential Candidates and Campaigns |
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Jan. 15, 2021 |
The Biden Presidency |
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Jan. 31, 2020 |
Presidential Primaries |
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Nov. 16, 2018 |
The Presidency |
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Jan. 06, 2017 |
Trump Presidency |
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Mar. 06, 2015 |
Presidential Power |
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Feb. 03, 2012 |
Presidential Election |
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Jan. 30, 2009 |
The Obama Presidency |
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Aug. 08, 2008 |
Political Conventions |
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Jul. 18, 2008 |
Race and Politics |
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Apr. 20, 2007 |
Electing the President |
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Dec. 30, 1988 |
Promises vs. Problems |
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Jul. 10, 1987 |
Presidential Nomination Process |
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Feb. 03, 1984 |
Choosing Presidential Nominees |
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Jun. 06, 1980 |
Choosing Presidential Candidates |
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Apr. 09, 1976 |
Presidential Campaign Coverage |
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Feb. 23, 1972 |
Political Conventions |
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May 27, 1964 |
Foreign Policy Issues in Election Campaigns |
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Sep. 21, 1960 |
Voting in 1960 |
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Jan. 06, 1960 |
Presidential Primaries, 1960 |
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Jan. 04, 1956 |
Campaign Smearing |
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Nov. 30, 1955 |
Presidential Possibilities, 1956 |
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May 09, 1952 |
Open Conventions |
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Jan. 16, 1952 |
Presidential Primaries, 1952 |
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Oct. 12, 1949 |
Modernization of the Presidential Election |
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Jan. 14, 1948 |
Presidential Primaries |
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May 01, 1944 |
Foreign Policy in National Elections |
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Jan. 01, 1944 |
Choice of Candidates for the Presidency |
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Apr. 08, 1940 |
Republican Candidates for the Presidency, 1940 |
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Apr. 01, 1940 |
Democratic Candidates for the Presidency, 1940 |
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Jun. 19, 1939 |
Selection of Nominees for the Presidency |
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Aug. 19, 1938 |
Nomination by Primary |
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Mar. 11, 1936 |
Voting in Presidential Elections |
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Feb. 18, 1936 |
Presidential Candidates, 1936 |
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Mar. 03, 1932 |
Decline of the Presidential Primary |
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Aug. 25, 1931 |
Presidential Candidates, 1932 |
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May 05, 1928 |
National Nominating Conventions |
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Sep. 03, 1927 |
Presidential Candidates—1928 |
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Jun. 14, 1927 |
Patronage Influence in Nominating Conventions |
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Sep. 11, 1926 |
The Future of the Direct Primary |
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Jul. 02, 1924 |
Proposed Reforms of Presidential Nominating Methods |
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Jun. 04, 1924 |
The Machinery of the Political Conventions |
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Mar. 15, 1924 |
Presidential Candidates and the Issues |
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Sep. 05, 1923 |
The Passing of the Second Term |
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