Young Dick Cheney

We know the globe-running, terror-fighting, meeting master Vice President Cheney, but did you know his parents were hardcore Democrats?  or that he thought his father turned into a bird (albeit at a pretty young age), or that he was first refused a job when he came to DC?   As we discuss with Tim Pearson, author…

The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit – Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/ Bill Scher

Edward Stettinius, Jr. served a short but important time as Secretary of State serving F.D.R. and Truman.  Without him, there may not have been a UN.  And because he got very little credit, he was able to be successful.   With journalist Bill Scher, host of the “When America Worked” Podcast we discuss Stettinius and pragmatists…

Vaccines Then and Now

A history of vaccines and the politics of vaccines. Vaccine history, acceptance and denial.  The leap of faith required for vaccines in past times. Vaccines and The Revolutionary War. The man who saved Boston and never got credit.   Law and the citizen when it comes to medicine.   FDR’s polio – if it was polio –…

Golden Beauty Boss: Madame Sara Spencer Washington w/ Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks

With Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, author of Golden Beauty Boss we talk about Madame Sara Spencer Washington, an African American woman whose beauty empire made her a millionaire in the 1920’s Washington was a cosmetic entrepreneur whose company turned her into one of of America’s first black millionaires. She was founder and president of Apex Enterprises consisting…

We’ve Got Problems. We’ve Always Had Problems. Free Speech, Cancel Culture? and Rhetoric Envelope-Pushing

In this episode, no big deal, we just tackle about every significant problem we have in our politics today.  norm-breaking, free-speech and free-speech limits, threats and violence, double impeachments, pushing envelopes and reverse virtue signaling is all part of this episode.  Also, Abigail Adams, a treaty won by a forceful speech, a shadowy organization rising…