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Marcus Hanna told William Mckinley after the election, your job is to survive and not die
马卡斯汉纳曾告诉麦金利大选之后，他的任务就是活着挺过难关
Well what happened to Mckinley
但意外还是发生了
He was shot by an anarchist
麦金利受到无政府主义者枪击
and Theorodore Roosevelt becomes president and start pushing through the progressive reform agenda, Yes
而后西奥多坐上总统之位，并开始实行他的改革日程，请问
Oh, it's his birthday? it's Roosevelt's birthday today
噢，今天是西奥多·卢瑟福的生日呀
Thanks for bring that up! That's, how old had he been
谢谢你的信息！他今年多少岁了
Roosevelt was a popular president
卢瑟福是个受欢迎的总统
The Democrats didn't know what to do, They went back Alton Parker
民主党人对他束手无策，他们选了奥尔顿·帕克做候选人
another one of these Bourbon Democrats hard-money man the antithesis of William J.Bryan
又是一个波旁派民主党人，支持硬性货币，与布莱恩势不两立
Thorough social conservative, financial conservative, pretty much conservative all the way through
在社会经济上他都是个保守主义者，在各方面他都持保守意见

and you can see the West now has shifted entirely into this progressive Republican camp
现在你看到西部已经完全臣服于提倡进步的共和党阵营
and you have the southeast against the rest of the country, a very very clear pattern
东南部的连续区域与其他所有地区对峙，形成一个非常明显的格局
If you look at something like California
看看加州的县级选情图
You can see this blue were the Democratic voting counties not very much
蓝色代表支持民主党的县寥寥无几
Overwhelming support in California for Roosevelt and the progressive movement
加州几乎一边倒地支持西奥多推行的进步运动
California had very strong progressive, As Republican establishment, Hiram Johnson
加州是个非常支持进步主义的地方，共和党成立后，海尔姆·约翰逊
latter California governor was sort of the left wing of the progressive movement, if you will
加州曾经的一位州长是进步运动的左翼分子，是的
coming out of the California Republicans
他是加州的一名共和党人
so CA a very interesting state to look at this time
加州受他影响而极度支持进步运动

视频及简介

这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。