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Audio Version of HISTORICAL NEW HAMPSHIRE

"First Stop: The New Hampshire Primary"

Historical New Hampshire, Volume 58, Nos. 1&2, Spring/Summer 2003

Editor: Donna-Belle Garvin, Director of Publications, New Hampshire Historical Society
Presidential campaign buttons, 1952-2000.  From the collections of the New Hampshire Political Library and the New Hampshire Historical Society.  Photograph by Bill Finney.
Introduction

Author and guest editor: Michael P. Chaney, Executive Director, New Hampshire Political Library


(7.89 mb, ~8 min listening time)



Governor Hugh Gregg (1917-2003), the youngest man ever to serve as New Hampshire's chief executive (in office 1953-55), proudly displaying a map, designed to show graphically New Hampshire's leading role in the selection of the nation's president, 1953.  Courtesy of the New Hampshire Political Library.
"'He's My Man': Sherman Adams and New Hampshire's Role in the 'Draft Eisenhower' Movement"

Author: Michael J. Birkner, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts at Gettysburg College


(39.8 mb, ~43 min listening time)



President Dwight Eisenhower being welcomed to New Hampshire by Governor Hugh Gregg.  Behind Eisenhower stands New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (in office 1949-53), the man more responsible than any other for Eisenhower's election in 1952.  Levensaler Collection, New Hampshire Historical Society.
"Mainstream Versus Reform Candidates in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, 1968-2000"

Author: Danta J. Scala, Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College and research coordinator of the Center for the Study of New Hampshire Politics and Civic Life


(48.7 mb, ~53 min listening time)



"Selectman Stephen Barba posts the results of the Nation's first presidential primary [in the] tiny hamlet" of Dixville Notch, February 16, 1988.  UPI Collection, New Hampshire Historical Society.
"Live Free and Vote: What Fifty Years of the New Hampshire Primary Can Teach a Candidate"

Author: Peter Haskell Burr, independent political researcher and analyst


(30.5 mb, ~33 min listening time)



Then Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy prepares to go for a dogsled ride in Berlin during the 1960 primary.  New Hampshire Political Library.
Book Reviews

Why New Hampshire?: The First-in-the-Nation Primary State by Hugh Gregg and Bill Gardner (Resources-NH, 2003)

Reviewer: Michael P. Chaney, Executive Director, New Hampshire Political Library

The Making of the Presidential Candidates, 2004, edited by William G. Mayer (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)

Reviewer: Rev. Dale S. Kuehne, founding director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College


(11.9 mb, ~13 min listening time)






"First Stop: The New Hampshire Primary"

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