Oct 27, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Harry S. Truman. Farmer. Soldier. Failed businessman. Given his political career by a mobbed-up bootlegger. Became President through fate. Adopted John Wayne persona to try to look tough.
Oct 20, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Then, on April 12, 1945, FDR died, aged only 63. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/WCATR4967146762.mp3?updated=1660203086
Oct 13, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
FDR sends one of his inner circle, Edward Flynn, a staunch Catholic, to meet the Pope to try to keep the peace between him and Stalin. Stalin meanwhile revived caesaropapism, the old tradition dating back to Constantine, making himself head of the Russian Orthodox...
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Stalin crushes the Ukrainian Catholic Church, partly because socialists believe religion is the opium of the masses, and partly because the Pope, Pius XII, had done a deal with Hitler and was a virulent anti-Communist.
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March 8, 1945. Allen Dulles, the Bern station chief of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the CIA), met in secret with Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, the former head of Heinrich Himmler’s secretariat, who in the last years of the war became the...