Ohio V. The World

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  • An American History podcast, hosted by Alex Hastie.
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  • Presidential Medical Secrets and the Real 1st Female President

    Presidential Medical Secrets and the Real 1st Female President
    Nov 5 2024
    It's Election Day and we're back with another presidential episode "Ohio v. the 25th Amendment." We look at two major presidential health emergencies that were covered up prior to the 25th Amendment and the history of presidential infirmity. First is the story of Woodrow Wilson's massive stroke in the fall of 1919 and how the 1st lady, Edith Wilson, became the first female president. And we look at a secret presidential surgery at sea for Grover Cleveland's cancer. Alex is joined by author William Hazelgrove to discuss his book Madam President (2016) about Edith Wilson, our 1st woman president. We analyze their quick courtship and Wilson reaching the heights of global popularity following WWI. The political battle at home over the League of Nations leads Wilson to a cross-country whistle stop tour that ends in a massive stroke. We cover the little-known history surrounding Edith Wilson taking over the executive branch in her husband's absence and the lengths she went to coverup the extent of his illness. Our second story covers Grover Cleveland's emergency surgery at sea for cancer during his second term. Author Annette Dunlap rejoins the program to discuss Cleveland's health scare and the celebrity status of his wife Frances Folsom Cleveland. Link below to Dunlap's Frances Cleveland biography Frank: America's Youngest First Lady (2009). Friend of the pod, Bruce Carlson discusses how Grover Cleveland became the only two, non-consecutive term President in US history (at the time of this recording). Check out Bruce's excellent political history podcast My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (link below). City of Buffalo Historian, Lindsey Lauren Visser rejoins the show to outline the coverup of Cleveland's cancer and the surgery to remove it aboard the Oneida, a yacht in the summer of 1893. Lindsey shares the dangers of the surgery and how the intricate coverup comes unraveled. But Cleveland's teams efforts to discredit the journalist EJ Edwards who broke the story led to the writer's career being ruined. Contact Alex and the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com or on the podcasts' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter page. Check out the Evergreen Podcast Network for Ohio v. the World and hundreds of other great podcasts www.evergreenpodcasts.com. See you on 11/26/24 for Ohio v. the World's Season 8 finale. Go Vote! Historian Lindsey Lauren Visser homepage: https://lindseylaurenvisser.com/ Listen to My History Can Beat Up Your Politics here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-history-can-beat-up-your-politics/id169078375 Buy Madam President by William Hazelgrove here https://www.amazon.com/Madam-President-Secret-Presidency-Wilson/dp/162157475X Buy Frank by Annette Dunlap here https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Cleveland-Americas-Youngest-Excelsior-ebook/dp/B007QWEEXE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • The "Other" Assassinations: The Political Murders of Presidents Garfield and McKinley

    The "Other" Assassinations: The Political Murders of Presidents Garfield and McKinley
    Oct 29 2024
    Four American Presidents have been assassinated in office. Two of them are among the most infamous moments in US history, the Lincoln and JFK assassinations. The "other" two assassinated Presidents were both from the Buckeye State: William McKinley and James Garfield. Unfortunately, the events of this campaign season have brought presidential assassinations back into the news. Alex looks at the extraordinary events surrounding James Garfield's killing in 1881 and McKinley's assassination 20 years later in 1901. We talk with 6 different leading experts on both presidents in new interviews and re-edited interviews from our original McKinley and Garfield episodes from 2020. We visit with the city historian for Buffalo, NY, Lindsey Lauren Visser, about the death of our 25th president, Canton, Ohio's own William McKinley. McKinley was shot at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo by a deranged anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz's journey to political murder begins as a factory worker in Cleveland, Ohio who is radicalized following the Panic of 1893 to an ardent anarchist, a popular subculture at the turn of the century. We also revisit conversations with Anthony Greco, the Director of Exhibits at the Buffalo History Museum and the host of the excellent Buffalo History Museum Podcast. Link below for that show and give a listen to their 3 part episode on the McKinley assassination. We also talk to University of Akron history professor Kevin Kern and excellent biographer Robert Merry buy his book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century with link below. The "other" assassination is the killing of Mentor, Ohio's James A. Garfield the 20th President of the United States. Garfield was shot by a mentally ill office seeker at a DC train station in the Summer of 1881. His shooting by Charles Guiteau is just the start of the story as Garfield lives for 80 days after the shooting. His terrible and negligent medical care was the cause of his slow, painful death. We replay our great interview with our favorite current historian, Candice Millard, and her excellent 2012 book Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (2012). Buy this book! Link below as well. We also talked to the former Site Manager of the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Todd Arrington. Also, check out Todd's book The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 on President Garfield's unlikely election victory. Contact Alex and the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com or on the podcasts' Facebook, Instagram and Twitter page. Check out the Evergreen Podcast Network for Ohio v. the World and hundreds of other great podcasts www.evergreenpodcasts.com. Historian Lindsey Lauren Visser homepage: https://lindseylaurenvisser.com/ Listen to the Buffalo History Museum Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-buffalo-history-museum-podcast/id1532344009 Buy Robert Merry's President McKinley: Architect of the American Century here: https://www.amazon.com/President-McKinley-Architect-American-Century/dp/1451625448 Buy Candice Millar's award-winning book Destiny of the Republic HERE! https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/0385526261/ Check out Todd Arrington's 2020 book The Last Lincoln Republic. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lincoln-Republican-Presidential-Elections-ebook/dp/B08P3WBWD8/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Ohio's Last VP: Nobel Prize Winner, #1 Hit Songwriter, Gen. Charles Dawes

    Ohio's Last VP: Nobel Prize Winner, #1 Hit Songwriter, Gen. Charles Dawes
    Oct 22 2024
    Our Presidential mini-season is back for 2024! We start with a bio episode on Ohio's last Vice President, General Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929), Calvin Coolidge's running mate from Marietta, Ohio. With JD Vance on the Republican ticket, Ohio may be seeing their first VEEP in 100 years. Charles Dawes is completely lost to history despite being a Nobel Peace Prize winner, writer of a #1 pop song, WWI General and a popular Vice President. Alex sits down with author Annette Dunlap to discuss her excellent biography, Charles G. Dawes: A Life, (2016) of the former VP. Her great book is the only Dawes biography we could find in the last 90 years. Annette takes us through his family history from the Mayflower to the American Revolution and the Civil War to his youth in Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio. Annette discusses, Dawes first foray into politics helping to run William McKinley's successful 1896 presidential campaign to his time as an important general in WWI for the American Expeditionary Force. Bruce Carlson joins the show to discuss Dawes' time in Nebraska, in politics and the Dawes Plan to ease the global crisis surrounding Germany's WWI reparations. Carlson the host of the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics podcast and the Vices podcast talks to us about Dawes' years as Vice President and his rocky relationship with his running mate Calvin Coolidge. We discuss his 1925 Nobel Peace Prize and how did a former Vice President write a #1 pop music hit? Buy Annette's book here https://www.amazon.com/dp/0810134195 Check out Bruce's Vices podcast on America's Vice Presidents https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-presidents-of-the-united-states-podcast/id1440240504 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins

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