Research Catalog

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Description

1. 528 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. Documented history of Republican and Democratic national conventions over the years.

Subject

1. Political conventions
2. Presidents > United States > Election
3. Politics and government
4. Presidents > Election
5. United States > Politics and government
6. United States

Contents

1. "Pity me, Harvey, pity me" -- "sacred as a soldier's grave" -- Hoist by their own petard" -- "We deny the paternity" -- "That kind of neutral man" -- "I'd get good and drunk, too!" -- "I congratulate you as being the 'dark horse'" -- "We're strong enough to kill if we are not strong enough to win" -- "His turn has come" -- "They love him most of all for the enemies he has made" -- "you have nominated a pocket handkerchief" -- "I am a living and rejuvenated Republican" -- "Who has been President anyhow" -- "The plain, blunt, honest citizen" -- "An American of Americans" -- "Clad in armor of a righteous cause" -- "To see Theodore Roosevelt take the veil" -- "A compact and undismayed army" -- "The nominee of the American fireside" -- "Into a cloudless atmosphere of party peace" -- Make it the presidency" -- "Their accustomed occupation of electing a Republican President" -- "Toot! toot!" -- We stand for a nobler America" -- "The Princeton schoolmaster" -- "The tongue and brain behind the door" -- "He kept us out of war" -- "Ohio's second McKinley" -- "We either have an ace in the hole or we haven't" -- "The blood of a death struggle" -- "I hereby decline the nomination for Vice President" -- "His age will be the reflection of himself" -- "Victory is his habit" -- "He knows that rewards come to those who bear the burden" -- "A pleasant man who would like very much to be president" -- "Here is a homely record" -- "A son of all the 48 states" -- "Guests, hell, we're the people!" -- "I could not in these times refuse" -- "Calm, neat, painstaking and deadly efficient" -- "You are not nominating a Vice President but a President" -- Unfettered by a single obligation or promise" -- "Don't you forget that" -- "It kills me to have to do this to him" -- "Times when a man is not permitted to say no" -- "The damnedest fool idea" -- "An open convention secretly arrived at" -- "I think you can guess what the answer will be" -- "We collected every political IOU we held in the country".

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 511-518.