Shinkle Calls for Bipartisan Response to Fascism In Interview with Steven Scully of the Bipartisan Policy Center On SiriusXM

In an Oct. 19 interview with Steven Scully of the Bipartisan Policy Center, Peter Shinkle discussed President Biden’s options for responding to fascism’s rise by making bipartisan cabinet appointments just like President Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1940. Biden is one of only four presidents since 1945 who have made no bipartisan cabinet appointments. The…

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Uniting America Named Finalist for Presidential Leadership Book Award

Biennial Event Recognizes Outstanding Works on Presidential Leadership to Encourage Civic Education and Involvement; Winner to be Announced October 14

BROOKVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Society of Presidential Descendants, housed at The Roosevelt School at Long Island University and dedicated to promoting civic education and involvement, today announced the three finalists for its Biennial Presidential Leadership Book Award.

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The Guardian Review: Uniting America: how FDR and the GOP beat fascism home and away

Charles Lindbergh casts a shadow over Peter Shinkle’s new book, which ends with a warning about Trump and his party.

Charles Kaiser
Sun 27 Nov 2022 02.00 EST

The subtitle of this remarkable popular history is “How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans together to Win World War II”, Stimson being the Republican Franklin Roosevelt chose as secretary of war on 19 June 1940, the same day he chose another Republican, Frank Knox, for secretary of the navy.

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Op-Ed: Liz Cheney for Attorney General

The Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2022 — Now that Rep. Liz Cheney has lost her primary to a Trumpist Republican in Wyoming, it’s time for President Biden to consider appointing her to his cabinet. Political tensions have risen to new levels since the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. Bringing a…

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