Would you Vote for Him Based on the Article Claude Pepper.
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Transcript of Would you Vote for Him Based on the Article Claude Pepper.
Who was he...
• Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) • Was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman
for left-liberalism and the elderly.• He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4,
1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.
• In 2000, the United States Postal Service issued a 33¢ Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring Pepper.
Red Accusations and hoax "Redneck Speech" in 1950
1. Pepper had been part of an unsuccessful 1948 campaign to "dump Truman“ as the Democratic presidential nominee and George Smathershad been his manager and pupil.
2. Smathers broke with Pepper and ran against him in the Democratic primary (which at the time in Florida was tantamount to election, the Republican Party still being
in infancy there)3. The contest was extremely heated, and revolved around policy
issues, especially charges that Pepper represented the far left and was too supportive of Stalin.
How the Speech Came to Be
• Pepper's opponents circulated widely a 49-page booklet titled The Red Record of Senator Claude Pepper.[8]
• Part of American political lore is the Smathers "redneck speech," which Smathers reportedly delivered to a poorly educated audience.
• What you read is the speech. There is a suggestion that the campaign was a myth, but the whole thing followed Smatters until his death