Clay talks with Jeremy Gill of Hays, Kansas, about former Vice President Henry Wallace. Wallace served several presidential administrations, some Republican but more Democrat. He was FDR’s New Deal Secretary of Agriculture, then FDR’s vice president in his third term, 1940-1944. The Democrats dropped Wallace as too radical in 1944, nominating Harry S. Truman in his place. So, Truman became the accidental president on April 12, 1945, not Henry Wallace. Wallace ran for the presidency against Truman as an independent in 1948 but lost badly. Wallace was a serious agrarian who experimented with new corn varieties and had a Victory Garden in Washington, D.C., during his tenure as vice president.
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#1600 A Conversation with Richard Rhodes
#1599 Underway! Tracing Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley” Journey
#1598 A Conversation with Political Cartoonist Phil Hands
#1597 Arbor Day and the Seeds of Liberty
#1596 Ten Things on Nullification
#1595 The Solar Eclipse of 2024
#1594 Live from Oklahoma
#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections
#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley
#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution
#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence
#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions
#1588 Presidential Norms
#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders
#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith
#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke
#1584 The Red Barber Program
#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens
#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck
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