[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”15510″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 2, 1941 – NBC News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] NBC News Of The World – July 2, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The War in Europe, this day in 1941, was heating up on
With the latest storm of controversy over the “court packing issue”, here’s a reminder the concept rears its head every so often, going back to President Andrew Jackson. The biggest incident took place in 1937 when President Roosevelt suggested expanding the Supreme Court by appointing an additional member of the
This day in 1964 (a Sunday), Meet The Press had Sargent Shriver on as guest. As former head of The Peace Corps, he was tagged by President Johnson to head up the newly declared War On Poverty. The War On Poverty, as LBJ unofficially termed it, was first introduced in
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and the tide was turning in the Allies favor. It was
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11513″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 13, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It was now a World War, this December 14th in 1941. America was busy gearing up for what would be a long haul. Cities were routinely going through
News reports via Mutual Broadcasting System – December 7, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years on, the event which triggered our involvement in World War 2 is getting further and further from the collective memory. Much the same way the beginning of America‘s involvement in World War 1
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October 27, 1944 – FDR Campaign Address – Shibe Park, Philadelphia – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In many ways a poles-apart contrast to the Presidential campaign of this year, the Presidential Campaign of 72 years ago was an unprecedented Fourth-term run for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Coupled
This January 6th we were still in the midst of a World War. The optimism which followed the Allied invasion of Europe in the Summer of 1944 was interrupted by a surprise German counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg just before Christmas. It threatened to cut the allied advance in half.
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”47222″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=“President Roosevelt – 50th Anniversary of Dedication of Statue of Liberty – October 28, 1936 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! On October 28, 1936, President Roosevelt celebrated the 50th anniversary of the dedication of The Statue of Liberty. So, 127 years
