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11 quotes by Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss Beschloss at Washington Center, January 2014 Born Michael Richard Beschloss (1955-11-30) 30 November 1955 (age 59) Chicago, Illinois Occupation Historian Nationality US Subject United States presidency Spouse Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss Michael Richard Beschloss (born November 30, 1955) is an American historian. A specialist in the United States presidency, he is the author of nine books. In November 2013, he was...
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The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

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First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions... →

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As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members... →

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From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did... →

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Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot... →

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So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would... →

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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's... →

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The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20... →

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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place... →

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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example... →

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