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New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, one of the first radio preachers in the country
纽约浸信会牧师斯特拉顿，最早通过电台传教的一位牧师
who had this to say about Al Smith, equated him with the urban evils of "card playing, cocktail drinking, poodle dogs
这样评价阿尔·史密斯，他把史密斯视为城市罪恶的化身：嗜赌，嗜酒，遛狮子狗
divorces, novels, stuffy rooms, dancing, evolution, Clarence Darrow, over-eating
离婚，小说，闷热的房间，跳舞，崇尚进化论，克拉伦斯，达洛，暴食
nude art, prize-fighting, actors, greyhound racing and modernism"
裸体艺术，地下拳击，男演员，赛狗，热爱现代主义
It's an odd mixture in today
在今天看来，这真是一个奇怪的组合
Today you wouldn't be putting over-eating and prize-fighting with modernism
今天你不会把暴食和地下拳击与现代主义归为一类
and nude art I don't think so
我也不认为裸体艺术跟它们有什么关系
So you know how political ideas at a real range themselves over time
可见政治理念随着时间的推移会发生多么大的变化
Well how did Al Smith do? Not well at all
阿尔·史密斯表现如何呢？一点都不好

All right, Democrats taking Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the first time
民主党第一次获得了马萨诸塞州和罗德岛州的支持
Although it's almost entirely because of Boston and providence
但这两州选票几乎都来于其首府波士顿和普罗维顿士城
rural areas didn't vote for him, but Boston certainly did
乡村地区没有把票投给他，但波士顿投了他的票
This area is heavily Irish and then keeping the Deep South only
这片地区有很多爱尔兰人，民主党只能守住南方腹地的票仓
Lots of southerners rejecting the Democratic Party, because of its Catholicism Al Smith, Irish Catholic from New York
很多南方人不愿再支持民主党，是因为阿尔·史密斯信仰天主教，他是来自纽约的爱尔兰天主教徒
He still got the Deep South which is interesting, so loyally Democratic
但有趣的是他仍然获得了南方腹地的支持，他们对民主党如此的忠诚
but the Border States rejecting the Democratic Party at this time
但在当时，边界各州是反对民主党的
Well everything changed in the next election, because of the Great Repression
然而下一次大选中由于大萧条的影响，一切都改变了

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。