Presidential Politics in the Post FDR Era
Our guest today is Mr. Doug Garr, an author, writer, editorial consultant, speechwriter and former Editorial Director of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. Doug, a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications has written for magazines, newspapers, and CEOs of companies like, JP Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, and Network Appliances. He has written books on Lou Gerstner of IBM, investing, and Silicon Valley. He wrote economic speeches for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and he is currently working on two new books. He has a life-long interest in politics.
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The Advocates will focus on “Presidential Politics in the Post FDR Era.”
Mr. Garr and I will discuss some of the pivotal elections, which include the following:
• Truman- Dewey-Wallace-Thurmond, 1948
• Eisenhower –Stevenson, 1952
• Kennedy-Nixon, 1960
• Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace, 1968
• Carter-Ford, 1976
• Reagan-Carter-Anderson, 1980
• Clinton-Bush-Perot , 1992
• Bush-Gore, 2000
a review of fdr's tax returns show he was a bit of a hypocrite when he railed against the tax cheats. i would like to see a program on the private and the public fdr.
To Class Act:
Sorry I do not know what you are referring to. You have to be more specific. FDR gave back 15% of his $75K salary and devoted 2/3 of his assets to the Warm Springs Foundation ($201K in the 1920's, equal to about $2-4 million today. Of course in the 1920's those were inflated dollars , unlike the 1930's.) which found the cure to Polio! Enough said!
As to the private FDR, I am always willing an able to do a show and will eventually find the right guest, maybe Joe Persico, the author of "Franklin and Lucy." But there are about 1000 books on FDR, so there is plenty of literature on the subject. rjg
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