Who is Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election with about 55% of the popular vote and took the electoral college vote by a wide margin.Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, in 1892; both his parents were lawyers, and he also became one. He served in World War I but was not sent to France until the final days of the war, and...
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- Education is the mother of leadership.
- When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
- Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
- But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
- If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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Cyberalgo: “history shows that our way of life is the stronger way. from it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.” —wendell willkie
Reprenaissance: 1940: franklin delano roosevelt vs. wendell willkie fdr ran a perfect campaign that displaced concern over a 3rd term and appealed to both realists and isolationists. he replaced john nance garner with henry wallace, who at the time seemed bipartisan.
Ralphemmers: his wife “cheated” on him with the great us presidential candidate wendell willkie — it was the right thing to do for china and i’m sure chiang agreed
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