So glad you are telling this story. History repeats itself, and progressives need to know our history. Ken Burns' series The Roosevelts also profiles Wallace and shows his popular appeal.

Henry Wallace is the greatest president we were blocked from having

Thank you. Outstanding!

On the left, we need to specify more often the difference between Left/Right economics and Left/Right social policy.

I wish more people knew and understood the significance of the Smedley Butler coup mentioned at 4:29

I want to live in that parallel universe where Wallace became president in 1945. It would be a better world.

As always...Excellent Mr. Jay. And thank you Professor Kuznick.

16:47 - It's Wallace that says that America's fascists are those who put Wall St. comes first and the American people come second.

This was such an amazing eye opener!!!! I knew the democratic party was devious, but absolutely had no idea how much so. How history could so swiftly repeat itself, baffled me just now. It totally feels like we are living in a new 1930's era, only 100x's worse.

Thank you. I didn't really know the Wallace story.

Fascinating history lesson!

Great series. A good complement to the excellent Oliver Stone-Kuznick "The Untold History of the U.S." (also on KZfaq).

this series is so important. thank you Real News.

Fascinating. This is valuable information. Thank you.

Wonderful. Thanks for this.

Excellent reporting.

Fascinating and excellent series.

Great series.

It seems like whenever we reach a fork in the road we take the wrong path or maybe not. I just watched a video by Vijay P. and he explained our predicament very well. His analysis of Capitalism went something like this, Capitalism has up and down cycles. Keynes determined that when Capitalism is in one of it's down cycles then the Government has to step in and give a counter-cyclic economic stimulus to make sure the downturn doesn't go to far. This is what Roosevelt did with the New-Deal. The stimulus was a social one because of the power of the labor and the people's movements of that day. Vijay says that America turned the social stimulus into a military stimulus as the power of the people eroded. I believe this is one of the reasons Henry W. wasn't placed back on the Democratic ticket. There is this debate that America is in this struggle between the forces of Democracy and those of Imperialism. I'm not so sure if that is the case. If you stick with Vijay's argument then something happened in the 1970's when we went off the Gold standard. The Federal Reserve note no longer had a fixed value and it's value could become whatever America wanted it to be. Pegging it's value to the main energy source (oil) of nations meant that in order for nations to grow they had to have dollars. The seventies was also when automation and globalization started gaining traction so manufacturing didn't play as big of a role in Capitalism, the cyclic nature of Capitalism changed and speculation became the new structure.This all collapsed in 2008 and instead of us doing the smart thing to restructure our economy into a sustainable one, we've been trying to keep the party going. Trump's theatrics are the last act in this story of greed and deception. Unfortunately it's over and like they used to say when I was a young man when the party would end "you don't have to go home but you have to leave here."

Of course Wallace did not represent the racist southern wing of the Democratic Party at the time. He was from the mid-west, and up until 1932, he was a Republican and he came from a family of Republican who were sympathetic to the progressive wing of the Republican Party that did existed in the early part of the 20th century. It was basically Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, and even Nixon -- who exploited the racist and religious south -- is what led to what we have now.

That was awesome... and an interesting proposition.

"Even Woodrow Wilson would regret his actions, and before his death (for which he was poisoned, assassinated) stated: "I am a most unhappy man--unwittingly I have ruined my country." "The bill passed on December 22, 1913, and signed it into law the next day. Later he regretted what he had done.

Or Paul, we could just call them what they are ... the Right Wing.

holy crap, wow! how different things could have been!

Intersting. I just read a new biography of Henry Wallace that included research into FBI and USSR archives. It detailed the massive influence on and support for Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party by the USSR, as well as their efforts to interfere with the election of 1948.

I reside near the border with Canada.The presenters on "Hockey Night in Canada" know more about American history than people born in the states.I was at an outdoor concert and I had to show a woman from Brasil where the Canadian consulate is she told me there are Americans in grad school who could not find their school's state(Missouri) on the map.

For post-WW2 so called 'Free Market' - read 'FRAUD Market'!!

I had know idea Peter Kuznick was the guest but I should have figured.

Cover William Jennings Bryan and his fight of the corporate democratic wing

And sadly he has been written out of history

Secondary Source!!

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Can you talk about (Rep.John William Wright Patman) too.

Wallace would have been an amazing President.

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Such a shame the interview audio is so dreadfully bad - tinny, thin (:-(

Ok, bye. Im jumping over to that timeline.

begs the question why Franklin Roosevelt ran as a democrat if most of the country and his own extended family were republican.

your donation form is a nightmare. Why can't it go directly to paypal, instead of all the blanks to filll in on form one of three??????

15:56 - where do these old videos live, and how can I find them and watch them? There is damn little stuff about FDR these days, even on KZfaq, and I know there were all kinds of radio shows and NewsClips of FDR ... where is it all?

From 1832 to 1932, The Democratic Nominee for the Presidency had to win "two thirds" of the delegates to get the nomination. As a result, Democratic nominees were "compromise candidates" who had to have Support of both northern liberals and southern conservatives. FDR abolished the "two thirds rule" and future Democratic Presidential nominees only needed a simply a majority of delegates. (One incumbent President Franklin Pierce was denied renomination in 1856. ). The elimination of the "two thirds rule" allows a candidate to be more liberal.

I got Peter Kuznick to summarize the Cold War from 1944 to 1960 for me and talk about his books. The discussion can be found at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJOkZNShp7CVnmg.html or warscholar.org/?p=2408

Here is the prior videos mentioned at the beginning. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLiYopuZ0traZ2w.html

Clinton vs. Obama is a match of a liberal vs. An ultra-liberal. Wallace vs. Byrnes is more of a Midwestern Progressive vs. Southern Conservatives. In 2018, it would be almost like if Bernie Sanders was the incumbent Vice President versus Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina (if he was a Democrat instead of a Republican).

fix the audio on your videos. it is annoying to try to listen to them

Today, Sanders is frowned upon as another bag of wind.

Imagine if FDR kept Wallace. What a start to the Cold War that'd have been

The new deal was paying americans to build america bernie wanted to pay overpriced shools for a mostly invaluable education bad idea

22:00: Had Wallace become President “there would have been no atomic bombings of Japan . . .there would have been no Cold War.” Where is the evidence for these assertions? The definitive biography of Wallace, “American Dreamer,” states that there is no record of Wallace, either in private or publicly, opposing Truman’s decision to drop the bombs. As for the Cold War, there indeed might not have been one since Wallace would likely have been rolled by Stalin.

It's going to take a total burnout of the working class unless we somehow break capital's grip on the media. eddie evans - ClimateDeception.Net

The dumping of Wallace saved America.

WHERE'S WALLACE, WHERE'S WALLACE, STRING WHERE'S WALLACE, screamed Reagan, no I'm sorry got my fact wrong Reagan was a FDR supporter.

What's the difference between "Red" Pepper and Henry Wallace on one hand and the over educated intellectuals who make these videos on the other hand? Answer, Pepper and Wallace admitted they were wrong.

Im sorry, as a lifelong leftist Henry Wallace wouldve been a disaster to follow Fdr. He wouldve surrendered too much to Stalin, a postion he later admits he was wrong about. It wouldve set the left back even more than the later yrs of Trumans 2nd term & might have given the means to which someone like MacArthur couldve become president. He wouldve certainly lost in 1948. That being said he was spot on with regards to alot of issues

what the fuck happened to bettering ourselves as americans? fuck money in politics

Your source is a far leftest. Not exactly balanced

Telling a republican that hes a big spender is not an attack from the right, its just a fact