1936

Party

Democratic

Republican

Union

Candidate

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alfred M. Landon

William Lemke

Electoral Count

523

8

Popular Vote

60.8%

36.5%

1.9%

Key Terms: 1936 Election

  1. Second New Deal

  2. Landon's "me tooism"
  3. Huey Long's assassination
  4. Townsend Plan
  5. Social Security Act
  6. Father Counklin/"Radio Priest"
  7. Wagner Act
  8. Literary Digest poll
  9. "goes Maine, so goes Vermont"

Key Terms: F. D. Roosevelt Administration

  1. New Deal

  2. First Hundred Days
  3. "fireside chats"
  4. Bank Holiday
  5. Banking Act 1933
  6. NRA/Blue Eagles
  7. AAA/Farm Credit Act
  8. PWA, CWA, WPA, CCC
  9. Harold Ickes - Harry Hopkins
  10. Security Exchange Commission
  11. Tennessee Valley Authority
  12. Schechter v. United States
  13. Counklin, Long, and Townsend
  14. Social Security Act
  15. Wagner Act
  16. "court packing plan"
  17. Fair Labor Standards Act
  18. Neutrality Acts
  19. "cash and carry"
  20. "lend-lease"
  21. Good Neighbor Policy
  22. Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. World War II

"Mr. Roosevelt," said one working man, "is the only man we ever had in the White House who would understand that my boss is a son-of-a-bitch."

Landon once complained to John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee. "Why don't you ever bring workingmen to see me? All I ever see are stuffed-shirt businessmen and bankers."

"Wherever I have gone in this country," announced Landon in one speech, "I have found Americans." The sentence evoked so much mirth that Landon began cracking down on his speech writers.

Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller, Jr., Oxford University Press, New York, 1984.