[ichabod1]

Well all I can say is that the National party needs to get themselves... movin’ because you got people sayin’ you know, what’s going on ain’t right? It ain’t right.

[smokingfrog]

Teddy eventually went 3rd party and Wilson became president.

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Cowan has a book out about the 1912 conventions. Apparently, TR was so upset about losing the votes of African-Americans at the GOP convention that he seated all-White delegations from the Deep South. This cost him the support of Black Progressives in the North, who actually thought they'd do better with Woodrow Wilson. It's not likely, though, that TR could have won as a third party candidate whatever he did.

Cowan can't stop talking about how he was the one who transformed Democrat conventions back in the 1970s.

On the eve of the 1972 Democratic Convention, Howard K. Smith delivered a commentary as co-anchor of the ABC Evening News that ended with these words: "Over the hall tonight hang huge pictures of men who made the Democratic Party what it is. One is missing - young Geoffrey Cowan. He did more to change conventions than anybody since Andrew Jackson first started them."

No word on what else he's been doing for the last forty years, but he's probably been having a better time than Andy Jackson or Howard K. Smith.