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Michael Beschloss Quotes

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 have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. - Michael Beschloss

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1960 | Occurred | Convention | System | Kennedy |

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People didn't stop to notice the dog that didn't bark. The dog that didn't bark was something we had feared for a half century -- that even if we won World War II, as we did, it would only be a matter of time before Germany was led by another Hitler ... That didn't happen. And it turns out that much of the reason was what Roosevelt and Truman secretly did during the war. - Michael Beschloss

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 in Congress. - Michael Beschloss

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. - Michael Beschloss

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