Historians Richard Norton Smith and Edna Medford discussed C-SPAN's Historian Survey of Presidential Leadership on Washington Journal. Historian Douglas Brinkley joined the discussion by phone. From Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009.Edna Greene Medford
From there, we segue into an overview of some of the main examples of times when historians associated the church with producing political effects of note. This includes an examination of the “Catholic vote” and support for Roman Catholic Democratic presidential candidates Al Smith and John F....