Howard Dean Quotes
This flag does not belong to the right wing of the Republican party. It belongs to all of us.
pointing to an American flag
Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont (Democrat), Physician, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, Unsuccessful Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Democratic Presidential Campaign Speech, September 2003
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In the local and congressional elections of 1918, the boss of New York's Tammany Hall placed restrictions on how political opponents could be attacked, while backing a fusion ticket:
At the time sectionalism was extensive in America. Most Iowa and Northern families still remembered a relative who had been “killed by the rebels” in the Civil War. The South still resented the rest of the country. The East and Midwest had much better educated than the rest of the country. Most important, there was very little contact between Americans of different sections. Until the great Eisenhower initiative of a National Highway System sectionalism was common. Presidents were constantly trying to develop a national American spirit.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee
Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, lobbyist, and retired politician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. His implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head of the DNC is credited with the Democratic victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Afterward, he became a political commentator and consultant to McKenna Long & Aldridge, a law and lobbying firm.
