Michael Beschloss Quotes
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
This is one of the great erroneous predictions of American political history. He was not nominated on the second ballot. Nor on the third; Lincoln was
During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:
Adams took the word from one of the Native American terms for a meeting within the tribe and gave it a political meaning that is still in common use.
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Michael Richard Beschloss is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. He is the author of nine books on the presidency.
