WHISTLESTOP: My Favorite Stories From Presidential Campaign History, by John Dickerson.
|
|
His delightful "Whistlestop" podcast has been churning out episodes of presidential history for years.
|
|
In 26th and early 224th centuries, though, that usually meant a train and a "whistlestop" rally.
|
|
And it's at Trump Tower where Dickerson would begin a future "Whistlestop" documenting the 2016 campaign.
|
|
"Whistlestop" unfolds as a series of good yarns, told in plain language with wisecracking asides here and there.
|
|
You read "Whistlestop" to put the chaos of today's campaign into perspective — or, perhaps, to escape from it.
|
|
Very quickly, though, the public and the press began to interpret the highly choreographed whistlestop tour as foregrounding a Zuckerberg 2020 presidential campaign.
|
|
But through all the stories, asides, and jokes, Whistlestop never loses sight of the overall theme: presidential campaigns are a dirty, unpredictable business.
|
|
Facebook is a leviathan and, as its leader, Zuckerberg has plenty of reasons to benefit from a whistlestop tour without ever running for office.
|
|
Libby Nelson: I'm a huge fan of Whistlestop — I listened to about eight episodes driving to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention and back.
|
|
A city firmly on the move, CNN took a whistlestop tour around the places that keep Dubai ticking, and crunched the numbers underpinning its success.
|
|
The bride's father retired as a scheduling manager at Whistlestop Wheels, a provider of free transportation for older people and the disabled in San Rafael, Calif.
|
|
Allow me to take you on a whistlestop tour of rock n' roll's love affair with the leather jacket, essentially a "Greatest Hits" of cowhide cool.
|
|
Even though we're past election day, I'm giving myself a few more days to wrap up my choice for presidential book number 44 (Whistlestop, by John Dickerson).
|
|
And her whistlestop tour of European capitals to persuade fellow EU leaders to change the Brexit deal to make it more palatable at home is not succeeding.
|
|
The host of CBS's "Face the Nation" is out with a new book called "Whistlestop" recounting his favorite tales from more than 200 years of election history.
|
|
I like to think that Pickled Green Peaches At The Raw Duck Canteen is the long-awaited follow up to Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe.
|
|
LN: In the Whistlestop podcast, you often pick out a single moment or important event from a campaign as a way to talk about the broader political context.
|
|
John Dickerson's Whistlestop (based on his popular Slate podcast) unspools wild tales from the presidential campaign trail throughout history, many with threads that brought the 2016 campaign to mind.
|
|
The stories that make up "Whistlestop" are of the historical kind, but running under the surface is a sense of relish for the unexpected, the unusual, the novel and exciting.
|
|
His first task is to assemble a rag-tag skeleton staff of hacks, distinguished more by their availability than their ability, picked up on a whistlestop tour of Fleet Street's pubs.
|
|
Johnson's on a whistlestop tour to sound out largely unreceptive EU leaders on the possibility of striking a new divorce deal before the U.K. exits the bloc, "do or die," by October 31.
|
|
John Dickerson, a political columnist at Slate and the host of CBS's Face the Nation, makes that point over and over again in his podcast, Whistlestop, which explores turning points and famous moments from past presidential campaigns.
|
|
Even as the Comey controversy swirls, Trump is preparing for his first foreign trip at the end of this week, a whistlestop swing through the Middle East and Europe that reflects an ambitious lift for a new White House.
|
|
" The pledge has a direct parallel in Mr. Trump's promises to "drain the swamp," said John Dickerson, the host of CBS's "Face the Nation" and the presidential history podcast 'Whistlestop," a recent episode of which was devoted to Jackson's inauguration.
|
|
In his new book, Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories From Presidential Campaign History, Dickerson draws out the themes that recur in American campaign history — how candidates collapse, how they beat expectations, and how they tap into deep feelings within the electorate.
|
|
On the last day of his whistlestop trip around Mexico, Pope Francis asked prisoners in the border city of Ciudad Juárez to pray for the society that has failed them, and then called business leaders "slave drivers" who were helping to foment violence.
|
|
Mr. Dickerson, the author of "Whistlestop," a new book about the history of presidential campaigns, explains how the White House's initial resistance to disclose the incident triggered something new in American public life: a deluge of deeply private medical information about the commander in chief.
|
|
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on a seemingly endless whistlestop-style tour across the country, possibly because he plans to run for president and possibly because his company realizes that PR work is crucial to bolster the company's image and keep regulators at bay.
|
|
If you're playing along at home, here they are: A 2014 New York Times article on what really caused Harrison's death (spoiler alert: gastrointestinal pathogens), and this episode of Slate's Whistlestop podcast, helmed by Face The Nation host (and occasional debate moderator) John Dickerson on Harrison's election of 1840.
|
|
In this light, as Axios' Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei argued in a separate piece, Mark Zuckerberg's whistlestop-esque jaunt through America should be seen not as the foundation of presidential ambition, but as a calculated PR campaign aimed at shoring up the public and political perception of Facebook.
|
|
Trump's whistlestop tour across the subcontinent Monday, including a speech before 100,000 people at a "Namaste Trump" rally, promises to boost trade and fight terrorism, and a visit to the Taj Mahal, where he shook hands with Yogi Adityanath, a hard-line Hindu monk and politician known for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
|
|
Directed by Herve Martin-Delpierre, the hour long documentary took us on a whistlestop tour of the careers of Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel D'Homme Christo, from their fresh faced early days up to the Grammy-smashing present, taking in everything from the depressed dogs of "Da Funk" to the proto-EDM spectacle of the Alive tour.
|
|
The WhistleStop Marathon is USATF certified (#WI98019WG). The WhistleStop Marathon and Half Marathon was first run in 1997. In 2006 the marathon accommodated 600 runners while the half marathon accommodated 1,000 runners.
|
|
The female record time for the WhistleStop Marathon is 2:47:19, set in 2012 by St. Louis Park, Minnesota runner Jenelle Deatherage. The male record time for the WhistleStop Marathon is 2:28:41, set in 2007 by Duluth, Minnesota runner Eric Hartmark. The female record time for the WhistleStop Half Marathon is 1:21:43, set in 1999 by Maple, Wisconsin runner Sarah Anderson. The male record time for the WhistleStop Half Marathon is 1:08:36, set in 2006 by Minot, North Dakota runner Abraham Wengel.
|
|
Whistlestop has been included in at least one published walking tour of Portland.
|
|
Video of the Ride A view of the Ride thumb Goliath from the Whistlestop Park section.
|
|
Whistlestop Park is a themed children's area with various rides at several Six Flags amusement parks.
|
|
Whistlestop for an Organ Teacher is an outdoor 2009 stainless steel sculpture by American artist Cris Bruch, located in Portland, Oregon.
|
|
Downtown Ashdown hosts an annual Whistlestop Festival in May, paying homage to the importance of the railroad to the city's development. Festivities include an art show, catfish cookoff, car show, food vendors, games/activities for children, turtle races and the crowning of Miss Whistlestop. A farmer's market is hosted in City Park every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday during the growing season.
|
|
He appears on PBS's Washington Week and the Slate Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. Dickerson is also the host of Whistlestop, a Slate podcast about presidential history.
|
|
His blimp's name is Whistlestop, in human terms. Calvin helps Gaby and Cirocco find the other crew members (except April). He ultimately decides to leave his human companions to live with the blimp permanently. The remaining companions encounter the Titanides, strange centaur-like beings who speak a language based on music.
|
|
In late 2010, Six Flags began the process of removing licensed theming from attractions. They terminated several licenses including that for Thomas the Tank Engine. The Thomas Town at Six Flags Magic Mountain has been renamed and rethemed to Whistlestop Park which reopened on March 19, 2011. Percy's Railway was now again rethemed and renamed to Magic Flyer.
|
|
Plaque for the sculpture Whistlestop was designed by Cris Bruch and completed in 2009. It is located at the intersection of Southwest 5th Avenue and Southwest Morrison Street in the Portland Transit Mall. The stainless steel sculpture depicts pipe organ components, specifically a windchest and three "fanciful" pipes. It measures x x and weighs 1,200 pounds.
|
|
St. Stan's Brewery is a microbrewery in Modesto, California. The company was established in 1984. In 2017, St. Stan's reopened in downtown Modesto, with a taproom as well as offsite brewing of craft beers by their original brewmaster of 25 years, Bill Coffey, brewing originals such as Red Sky Ale, Whistlestop Pale Ale, Amber and Barley Wine, in addition to plans for some new styles.
|
|
Other buildings that were moved to the complex for preservation by the society include the original Amberg depot which was part of the "Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad"."Railroad Depot Museums", Railroad Station Historical Society. and the Cedarville station which was a whistlestop often frequented by hobos in a now extinct community near Amberg. Also moved to the museum complex was the derrick from the August Paveglio quarry.
|
|
The Trust manages 43 nature reserves covering throughout the county, from flooded gravel pits in the south to moorland and upland woodland in the north. Fourteen of these are Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The Trust also works with schools, local communities, local authorities, landowners and others to promote and protect the natural environment. Environmental education and workshops are provided at the Avenue Washlands Visitor Centre, the Whistlestop Centre, and the Wildlife Discovery Room at Carsington Water.
|
|
Thomas the Tank Engine, Tony Hawk, The Wiggles and Evel Knievel themes would be removed from all Six Flags parks beginning in 2011. At Six Flags America, Thomas Town was renamed Whistlestop Park and Tony Hawk's Halfpipe slide was renamed Halfpipe. For 2012, the park added Apocalypse, a stand-up roller coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard, which featured two inversions and a ten-story drop. The roller coaster had previously operated as Iron Wolf at Six Flags Great America.
|
|
Braniff dubbed the Lockheed Electra "The Lady Bird Special," after the ground Whistlestop Tour Train. "The Lady Bird Special" was painted on the sides of the aircraft, and a special route map of the tour was painted on the lower front part of the aircraft's fuselage near the main entry airstairs. Lady Bird became the first First Lady to hold the Bible as her husband took the oath of office on January 20, 1965 - a tradition which continues.
|
|
Swords is a ghost town in central Ontario, Canada in the township of Seguin in the District of Parry Sound. As with Seguin Falls, Swords was a whistlestop along the Booth railway. When the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway came through with the railway, they built a small flag stop and siding and named it Maple Lake Station. The railway brought lumbering to the area and in 1894 the Ludgate Lumber Company bought large amounts of land and began cutting down trees.
|
|
Johnson vigorously campaigned for Kennedy and was instrumental in helping the Democrats to carry several Southern states skeptical of him, especially Johnson's home state of Texas. Johnson made a "last-minute change of plans and scheduled two 12-minute whistlestop speeches in Georgia". One of these visits included stopping in Atlanta to speak from the rear of a train at Terminal Station. On the other hand, Ambassador Lodge, Nixon's running mate, ran a lethargic campaign and made several mistakes that hurt Nixon.
|
|
Basque, British Columbia, is located in the province of British Columbia, Canada, near the village of Ashcroft. It is the post office and whistlestop- crossing on the historic Basque Ranch, one of the earliest ranches in the Interior of British Columbia. One of the descendants of the Basque family is Garnet Basque, a notable popular historian in BC who has written extensively on ranching and the gold rush history. Basque is notable as the location where the Canadian Northern Railway drove its Last Spike in 1915.
|
|
Shortly after World War II, it became clear that coal was losing favor to other energy sources such as oil and natural gas. In contrast to other cities in the United States that prospered in the post-war boom, the fortunes of Saline County began to quickly diminish. Harry Truman stopped briefly in Harrisburg during his whistlestop tour on September 30, 1948, giving some hope for economic recovery for the region. Without hesitating, the long parade of police, buses, and accompanying cars sped through town.
|
|
General Orlando Bolivar WillcoxWarren Baxter EarpWilliam "Bill" Downing In 1880, the small town of "Maley" was founded as a whistlestop for the Southern Pacific Railroad. A whislestop is a train station where a train will stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off.Whistle-stop The station was an important supply point for the Army during the Apache Wars from 1880 to 1886. It was also important to the cattle ranching and mining industries of southeastern Arizona as a major shipping point.
|
|
Radio 1 Roadshow in Southsea, 1990 The Radio 1 Roadshow, which usually involved Radio 1 DJs and pop stars travelling around popular UK seaside destinations, began in 1973, hosted by Alan Freeman in Newquay, Cornwall, with the final one held at Heaton Park, Manchester in 1999. Although the Roadshow attracted large crowds and the style changed with the style of the station itself—such as the introduction of whistlestop audio postcards of each location in 1994 ("2minuteTour")—they were still rooted in the older style of the station, and therefore fit for retirement.
|
|
Independence station, also known as Missouri Pacific Depot, is an Amtrak train station in Independence, Missouri, United States. The station was originally built in 1913 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and is also known as the "Truman Depot," because it was the final stop in Harry S. Truman's 1948 Whistlestop Campaign where 8,500 admirers welcomed Truman in January 1953 when he returned home after leaving office. Today, the depot is an Amtrak stop and is said to be home to the Jackson County Genealogical Society Research Library. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
|
|
Originally known as "Maley", the town was founded in 1880 as a whistlestop on the Southern Pacific Railroad because of its position approximately halfway between El Paso, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. It was renamed in honor of a visit by General Orlando B. Willcox in 1889. In the early 20th century, Willcox was a national leader in cattle production. Agriculture remains important to the local economy, but Interstate 10 has replaced the railroad as the major transportation link, and much of the economy is now tied to the highway, which runs immediately north of the town.
|
|
Dickerson took over as host of Face the Nation on June 7, 2015. He served as host for 2 1/2 years until signing off on January 21, 2018. Shortly after this, Dickerson was named the new co-anchor of CBS This Morning. He is the author of, most recently, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency. Publishers Weekly described it as an “evenhanded and insightful look at the evolution of the American presidency.” He is also the author of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History, published by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, on August 2, 2016.
|
|
In 1993, acting on behalf of MTC, GGT began operating regional bus service between Marin and Contra Costa counties via the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. That same year, the district initiated an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) inter-county complementary paratransit service through an agreement with Marin County and its paratransit contractor, Whistlestop Wheels. The District went online in 1997, allowing passengers and visitors to browse through the District's history and updates. (Bus schedules were added to the website in 2004.) Also in 1997, the District installed bicycle racks at more than 40 key bus stops.
|
|
After a successful tour of Dubai, and other Arab countries, Sarbel went back to the studio and recorded a new single "Proti Ptisi" [Greek for 'First Flight'] which was released in early 2013 and followed up with a whistlestop tour in Crete, Athens, Beirut and Cyprus. He was also involved in his new Record Company Honeybel Music which produces lounge music predominantly bought and used in Dubai. Sarbel was a special guest as well at the London Eurovision Party which took place in the famous Shadow Lounge in Soho. The event was organised to promote the representatives for this year's Eurovision Song Contest and Sarbel as an earlier contestant was invited to perform by public demand.
|
|
It was the first solo whistle-stop tour by a First Lady. President Johnson initially said he would turn down the Democratic Party nomination for president, having been unhappy during his service in President Kennedy's administration and believing the party did not want him. Although aides could not sway him, the First Lady convinced him otherwise, reassuring him of his worthiness and saying that if he dropped out, the Republicans would likely take the White House. Lady Bird continued her Whistlestop Tour in October 1964. She used a Braniff International Airways Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop aircraft to conduct a multi-state tour, with stops in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Indiana, and Kentucky.
|
|
Joker's Jinx track layout Joker's Jinx is located in the Gotham City section of the park near Superman: Ride of Steel roller coaster and Whistlestop Park. After boarding Joker's Jinx, riders are launched through a narrow launch tunnel into a "spaghetti bowl" of track which contains a cobra roll, a sidewinder, and many twists and turns. The coaster doesn't have a mid- course brake run like the similar rides at Kings Island and Kings Dominion; instead the coaster has multiple rings that the train goes through. After the rings, riders spiral downward and to the left, and after more twists and turns they pass through a corkscrew before arriving at the ride's final brake run.
|
|
McCann had early appeal for the American market – indeed, in time this would eclipse his reputation in the UK. A 1964 feature in The Observer entitled 'The Importance of Being British', singled him out, alongside Burberry and Aquascutum, as a name with cachet for foreign buyers, quoting the fashion director of Helen Whiting in New York who had said: "Everything Gerald had looked new for our market". His work was also spotted by Bloomingdales buyer Ida Sciolino, who asked him to make something for her. This subsequently appeared on the cover of Glamour in the US and created a stir. McCann took his clothes designs on "whistlestop tours" of America and attracted enough attention to be invited to appear on breakfast TV shows.
|
|
99p Store in Gosport 99p Store in Bromley Nadir Lalani came to the UK in 1973 from Tanzania, having owned a cash and carry store in Mwanza. Since moving to the UK he built up and sold two convenience store chains (including buying Whistlestop Discount Stores, a 27-strong chain which he sold in 2005) before moving into discount retailing, with intentions of handing the business over to his two sons, who also work for the company, in due course. Lalani was inspired to start 99p Stores after stumbling upon a bustling Poundland shop whilst wandering around a shopping centre. His first store opened on 18 January 2001, with over 3,500 customers visiting the store in the first day of trading.
|
|
Its annual convention, Girlfriend Weekend, is held each January. Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides and South of Broad, was a keynote speaker at the 2010 conference.Dallas News, "Pat Conroy to Meet Pulpwood Queens in Jefferson, Texas," October 22, 2009 Conroy returned in 2011 and was joined by 40 other authors, including New York Times bestsellers Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Jamie Ford, who penned Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and Jeannette Walls, whose first book, The Glass Castle, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 100 weeks.Dallas News, "A Sneak Peek at the Pulpwood Queens Reading List," January 12, 2010 As a result, the 2011 event sold out.
|
|
A bequest allowed the Trust to appoint its first member of staff in 1973. As the Trust grew it was able to campaign more effectively and in 1984 hit the national headlines when it won a private prosecution against five men caught badger digging. After rebranding to become Derbyshire Wildlife Trust in 1986, the organisation became the focus of attention again the following year when it launched an appeal to raise £200,000 to renovate the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath and create the Whistlestop Countryside Centre, an education facility in the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath. Later in the decade a major Heritage Lottery Fund award enabled the Trust to develop more nature reserves work and set up a Midweek Volunteer Team.
|
|
The hamlet of Pittsfield, or "Pittsfield Centre", had an unmanned whistlestop station and siding on the Ontario & Western RR branch to Edmeston from New Berlin, later purchased by the Unadilla Valley RR. During World War I Richard Freeman and Charles Walton shipped lumber by the carload from here, milled over in Ketchum. Ketchum takes its name from the Rev. Orvib Ketchum who founded a congregational church on the headwaters of Aldrich Creek in the east part of town, the church was later sold by the Wyoming Conference to the Americana Village near Hamilton, NY. A schoolhouse, store, several steam sawmills and cemetery also existed here. The Ball family operated several "rope walks" nearby, where hemp was wound into twine and then rope.
|
|
Throughout her years in the journalism field, Nuzum served as a mentor for many young reporters and interviewed U.S. Senators, Governors, and U.S. Presidents, beginning with a whistlestop tour interview with President Harry S. Truman on October 16, 1949, at Grafton, West Virginia as he passed through town by train. She interviewed former President Truman again in 1962 at the Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins, West Virginia.Former President Harry Truman Visits Campus During Forest Festival in 1962.www.dewv.edu/about/first_hundred. Her White House "Invitation Only" interview with President Jimmy Carter on December 1, 1978 is on record during an era when a small number of news representatives from various areas of the country were asked to visit the White House as part of his press program.
|
|
Whistlestop the blimp, with the aged and dying Calvin inside, attempts to immolate Gaea in a Hindenburg-like blaze. Eventually Gaea is lured out of the city, enabling part of the army to rescue Adam while Cirocco and Gaea face off. At that moment Gene, old and addled, and living next to the dead remnant of one of the former regional brains, sets off the final blow (instigated by Gaby) by destroying with dynamite one of Gaea's major nerve-centers in full view of his own mind-parasite, which Gaby has removed from his head. Gaea is disoriented enough for Gaby to force her out of the hub, leading to the destruction of the giant Marilyn Monroe avatar in a scene reminiscent of the climactic battle in King Kong.
|
|
In the autumn of 1979, Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco, using the Jell-O ad campaign catchphrase, "There's always room for Jello", as his campaign slogan. Having entered the race before creating a campaign platform, Biafra later wrote his platform on a napkin while attending a Pere Ubu concert where Dead Kennedys drummer Ted told Biafra, "Biafra, you have such a big mouth that you should run for Mayor." As he campaigned, Biafra wore campaign T-shirts from his opponent Quentin Kopp's previous campaign and at one point vacuumed leaves off the front lawn of another opponent, current U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, to mock her publicity stunt of sweeping streets in downtown San Francisco for a few hours. He also made a whistlestop campaign tour along the BART line.
|
|
In his first speech since he was endorsed, Medvedev announced that, as president, he would appoint Vladimir Putin to the post of prime minister to head the Russian government.Speech by Dmitry A. Medvedev, New York Times, December 11, 2007 Although constitutionally barred from a third consecutive presidential term, such a role would allow Putin to continue as an influential figure in Russian politicsDrive Starts to Make Putin 'National Leader' The Moscow Times, November 8, 2007 Putin pledged that he would accept the position of prime minister should Medvedev be elected president. Election posters portrayed the pair side by side with the slogan "Together we will win" (""). whistlestop tour During the pre-election debates on the Star TV on February 20, Nikolai Gotsa, a representative of Bogdanov, accused Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his party of lying to and betraying their supporters.
|
|
Ashcroft Manor Ranch, known also as Ashcroft Ranch, is an historic ranch in the Thompson Country of British Columbia, Canada, founded by Clement Francis Cornwall (later Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) and his brother, Henry Cornwall. Ashcroft Manor's main house and buildings are an historic site adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian Pacific mainline, which named its whistlestop at the current site of the village of Ashcroft after it, naming it Ashcroft Station. The Ashcroft Manor is located on the Trans-Canada Hwy #1, at the junction for southern cutoff from the highway to the town of Ashcroft below on the Thompson River. In the heyday of the Cornwall brothers, Ashcroft Manor was one of the centres of British-style country life in the British Columbia Interior, and was famous for its fox-hunting parties and line of hounds, as well as race horses, and drew the early province's high society to these and other entertainments.
|
|
Pulley's Navy career included serving under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, during the U.S. classified South Seas exploration aboard from September 5, 1943 through November 24, 1943, (Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition and South Seas exploration) serving in China aboard as part of the last official task force to close out the military activities in that area, various missions during World War II , Korean War and Vietnam War, and serving as the Officer in Charge of the Fleet Air Photographic Laboratory in Jacksonville, Florida, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Pulley also served as the Military White House Photographer to President Harry S. Truman following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the famous "Whistlestop" tour of 1948, Pulley followed the President's campaign, covering in 33 days. Following Truman's reelection, Pulley left his position with the White House but returned in January 1952 to document the meeting between President Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard USS Williamsburg.
|
|