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Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

May 3, 2021, 8 tweets

Alf Landon is available for weddings, birthday parties and car wash openings to tell you how he really won the election of 1936 against FDR.

I won the ’36 election against FDR. By a lot. They’re finding new lost ballots in New York State all the time. It was fraud. A rigged election, and everybody knows it.

Opening acts for the former President at his early-bird-dinner performance tonight should be Joey Heatherton, Tiny Tim and Charo.

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And Lawrence Welk for Geritol:

On his ABC show, 1969, the uproarious Lawrence Welk shows what he thinks of the Beatles and the Monkees:

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And — by Camels: “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette”:

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