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For the 1948 presidential election, Eleanor Roosevelt tried to get Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination to oppose the incumbent Democratic president, Harry S Truman.
Steve Neal, Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World (New York: Scribner, 2001), 128.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. agonized over death threats he received from what he thought were black liberation groups, but were actually created by the FBI.
Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America: 1955 – 1968 (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004), 378. The CIA conducted 170 major covert operations during the eight years of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, and 163 during John F. Kennedy’s nearly three years in office.
Weiner, Tim, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Anchor Books, 2008), 207. In 1919, 20% of workers in the industrial sector were involved in a work stoppage.
Tooze, Adam, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), 341. When the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was created in 1905, it was the first union to allow a worker of any skill, nationality, race, sex, and age to be a member.
James Chace, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs – The Election that Changed the Country (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 174. |
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