July 20th, the anniversary of Democratic Party bosses sabotaging President Franklin Roosevelt's VP Henry Wallace renomination at the 1944 Chicago Democratic National Convention, despite Claude Pepper's valiant efforts. Less-popular Harry Truman won the final vote the next day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention
One might consider this the beginning of the end of the progressive / populist New Deal #Democrats.☹️
#FDR #NewDeal #HenryWallace

May 8, anniversary of #FDR VP Henry Wallace's 1942 Common Man speech at the Free World Association in New York City
https://youtu.be/QTZI0Giiwgk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare_for_the_Common_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace
Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" was inspired by this speech. Wallace called for Century of the Common Man, as opposed to publisher Henry Luce's "American Century"
#HenryWallace #CommonMan #NewDeal

Recommended reading:
The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party - The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics by John Nichols
#HenryWallace #JohnNichols

April 12th - the anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's tragic 1945 death.☹️

Alas, the end of the New Deal started some nine months earlier, on July 20, 1944 at the Chicago Democratic National Convention, where party bosses sabotaged much-liked progressive populist VP Henry Wallace's nomination😡 in favor of moderate Harry Truman. 😡

#FDR #HenryWallace #NewDeal #neoliberal #Democrats

#HenryWallace Warns Future #Americans About the #RiseofFascism

The struggle between democracy and fascism: http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw23.htmFrom the Thom Hartmann program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfX78VGeUrg