James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon Quotes

New York is overwhelmingly Democratic and yet the city bid for the convention. Having won, the city tried to make the reception as hospitable as possible.

The red scare in America and much of Europe was not taken very seriously in Ireland where the internal conflicts over Northern Ireland and trying to build the Irish Free State took most attention of the radicals like Sinn Fein. The most conservative group however ran against the Communists of whom there were just a few in Ireland and they had no organization or program.

During the 1860 Republican nominating convention, following the custom of the time, neither Lincoln or the odds on favorite, William H. Seward, were even in Chicago. Lincoln's campaign managers wired him regarding a possible deal with Simon Cameron to obtain the votes of the Pennsylvania delegation:. Lincoln's managers were incredulous. Without bargains there was no way Lincoln stood a chance. They decided that Lincoln didn't really mean what he had said but was only "covering himself" for the record. They proceeded to deal with Cameron as well as trade for most of the prospective cabinet and some Federal judgeships as well. Lincoln won and honored all the bargains when he became president.

In the late 1950s British Prime Minister adopted the line to trumpet his accomplishments to the British electorate. President Lyndon Johnson revived the slogan in the 1960s and used it on many occasions.

Debbs had been jailed for speaking out against the First World War. The Espionage Act forbade anyone from criticizing the war effort. (See {585905}). Later it was to be declared unconstitutional. However, Debbs had gotten more than 5 percent of the vote in 1912, competing against Wilson, Taft and Teddy Rosevelt. (There were 2 “third party candidates” in that election.) So Debs ran again in 1920. However, he was in jail. So he used the fact as a slogan. Amazingly, he actually obtained over 3 percent of the vote without ever leaving his jail cell. Later, President Warren G. Harding not only pardoned Debbs, but entertained him at the White House the next day.

The statement was made in the midst of the Cold War. There was a political battle ongoing over a national park in Wyoming. In the 1930s & 1940s John D. Rockefeller Jr. had tried to give his 33,000 acres of land adjacent to the Grand Teton National Park to the Federal Government as a park expansion. Residents of Wyoming at the time did not want the land to go to park use but wanted it available for commercial development & in a paranoid concern about the Federal Government controlling “their land,” Wyoming politicians blocked transfer. Finally Rockefeller wrote FDR telling him to take the land or he would sell it. The President did not have power to accept land to form a national park without Congressional action. So FDR did what his cousin TR had done and declared the land a national monument which transferred ownership to the government. Then Albright
tried to incorporate it into the park system & fought for years with the special interests and politicians of Wyoming.

After the candidate is elected in part by use of his slogans, people remember the slogans and expect the candidate to implement them. Often, even though a candidate honestly thought he/she would implement the sloigan, the candidate often realizes that it is not such a good idea or he might not have the political power to implement the slogans or the cost would be too high. If he had just made the promise in a campaign speech, most people will not have heard it and few will remember. But a slogan is heard by almost all and is very well remembered. This is why so many of the political slogans are general and promise nothing but hope.