Seeing that William, John, Harold, and Cornelius could not convince anyone, Alfred, who had been working with the mud, proposed a new solution - Harold donated to Taft's campaign foundation in the name of the family, and John stood for Dewey in the name of FedEx. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's not appropriate, the Vanderbilts have always spoken with one voice." John's first reaction was against it. It is easy for outsiders to misunderstand that they disagree with the family and want to split.

Although John has mixed well in the past two years, the biggest aura on him is still given by the Vanderbilt family. Before his career surpassed the old Cornelius and had the qualifications to completely get rid of the shackles of this identity label, it was too high-profile to rashly make a voice different from the mainstream of the family. It's easy to leave a bad impression on the bosses of other families as unruly.

"I don't think it's a big deal, it's just a party primary, and it's not just us who bet on both sides." Harold is telling the truth, the previous "unity" of the Vanderbilt family was mainly because there were too few people who could hold up the scene, and the strength of any single person was a little insufficient, and several bigwigs had to be twisted into a rope.

A family like DuPont, which has hundreds of branches, is not a long bet in the party primary. As long as the official campaign stage does not hold back the Republican candidates, the rest of the party will not be able to say anything.

"So be it. Taft and our family have also been friends for several lifetimes, and Robert is running for the first time, so it's not good not to support it. William also agreed with Alfred's proposal: "John, you and Dewey are both young people, and you worked together when investigating the Tammony Society, so it would be best for you to come forward and support him." ”

Well, it's three to one. Although Cornelius did not speak, it was clear that he was also in favor, and John could not say anything. Anyway, it's just a party primary, and the meaning is about the same as one or two thousand dollars.

After the meeting, John asked Walter to donate a sum of money to Dewey's campaign foundation, and took Adele to a public Dewey campaign rally, so he didn't pay attention to the matter anymore.

Anyway, in his impression, Vandenberg, Taft, and Dewey have never been presidents of the United States, and it makes little difference who they support.

As a result, by mid-June, the results of the Philadelphia convention came out, and John and the other Vanderbilt bigwigs were shocked. In addition to Vandenberg's early exit, which they expected in advance, the two newcomers, Taft and Dewey, actually fought and lost in the end, allowing a Democratic "two-and-five" fisherman to benefit.

John heard that there had been six rounds of voting (according to the rules, one candidate had to have more than half of the support to win), and the final decision was not made until the early hours of the next morning. In the end, it turned out that Wendell Wilkie, who had just switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and had only 4% approval in the polls.

You must know that Dewey's support rate before the election was as high as 67%, and in this case, Wilkie can turn the tables, which is too rare. Some media outlets have begun to refer to Wilkie's victory as the "Philadelphia Miracle."

John couldn't help but become interested in this Democratic Party's "two or five boys". What kind of person can successfully stage this earth-shattering reversal?

In fact, Wilkie is a "newcomer" with less political experience than Taft and Dewey. A few years ago, he was chairman of Southern Power before moving into politics after suing the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Until then, Wilkie was not only a staunch Democrat, but also a die-hard supporter of Roosevelt. But because President Roosevelt established the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 to coordinate the planning, development, and maintenance of the Tennessee River Basin, as well as to provide cheap electricity to backward rural areas.

This new policy measure seriously harmed the interests of the owners of private power companies such as Wilkie. Wilkie angrily led 19 electric utilities to sue the Tennessee Valley Authority, causing a national sensation. It was not until 1939 that the Supreme Court decided the legality of the Valle Authority and ruled that private power companies had no right to complain about the government's involvement in market competition.

Wilkie lost the case, but his talent and pro-business stance in the process won the support of the business community and the media. Since then, Wilkie has argued that the Democratic Party under Roosevelt has deviated from the traditional political line and has become increasingly anti-commercial. In the end, he decided to break away from the Democratic Party and join the Republican election campaign as a dark horse.

Initially, Wilkie was nicknamed the "Country Club" because of his near-zero political experience and his campaign team was quite amateurish. His status as an "outsider" has also been disliked by many old Republicans, and old Republican families like Vanderbilt have not even put him on their list of considerations.

If the Republican convention had been held on May 25 instead of June 25, Wilkie would have lost the election. But as Hitler's armies swept across Europe, France surrendered and Britain retracted to the island to be bombed. His internationalist foreign policy, which was at odds with mainstream public opinion, helped him a lot.

At this time, although the majority of the population still opposed the entry of the United States into the war, there was a growing belief that the government should increase aid to Britain. It is also believed that the United States needs a president with diplomatic wisdom at this time, and this is precisely the weakness of Dewey and Taft.

Dewey was too young and inexperienced in diplomacy, and his "non-interference" policy was a bit of a bad one. Taft, on the other hand, embraced isolationism, and neither of them could meet the demands of the president during the war, and only Wilkie, who had always advocated resistance to Hitler and aid to Britain, met their expectations.

Dewey, who had hoped to win more than 400 votes in the first round of voting, won the game in one fell swoop, but only received 380 votes. In the next few rounds of voting, Wilkie was very active, constantly attacking Dewey's diplomatic weakness. Delegates began chanting "We want Wilkie," and a flood of telegrams of solidarity poured in, numbering a staggering million.

At this critical juncture, Dewey's lack of political experience was exposed, and he was slow to come up with effective countermeasures. I can only watch Wilkie's votes go from 105, 171, 259...... went all the way to 655 votes, and was finally successfully overturned by Wilkie.

John wondered a little, how could such a bull man never hear of him in his previous life? After thinking about it for a long time, he finally remembered who Wilkie was.

Isn't this Wendell Wilkie the Roosevelt envoy who suggested that Soong Meiling visit the United States and preach to the American government and opposition the determination of the Chinese military and people to resist Japan? John had seen him in some historical materials about Soong Meiling's visit to the United States in 1942, and it is said that he and Madame Chiang had an affair.

Now John understands where the Republicans are losing. Candidate Wilkie himself held an internationalist stance, and was not much different from Roosevelt in foreign policy. In a mere competition for domestic policy, Wilkie, who had no political experience, was the opponent of Roosevelt, who had been president for eight years.

In a way, Hitler was a good campaign helper. A while ago, Churchill was sent to 10 Downing Street, and now Roosevelt is going to touch him again.