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text 2019-04-02 04:52

Political parties to rent helicopter for election campaigns

Charter helicopter for political parties is common today. The main reason is to quickly reach the maximum number of voters for a different consistency. Arrow Aircraft offers political helicopter booking in India, which is an essential security requirement. Special attention is paid to the safety, luxury and safety of VIPs. In general, helicopters reserve political parties one year in advance, but we are always ready to meet urgent needs. Helicopters are used to go directly to public gathering places. Helicopters play an important role in attracting large numbers of people to rural areas. We also offer fixed wing aircraft such as Falcon 7X, Falcon 2000, Global 5000, Hawker 900, Hawker 850, XLS Citation, B200 King Air and Citation Jet. BJP and Congress are the main parties for booking helicopters. Regional parties have also used a large number of aircraft. During the elections, states such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are very popular. You can also reserve a single-engine Bell 407, Augusta Westland. Bell 206B, its economic cost has also made it one of the most popular aircraft. Rashtriya Janata Dal, the main Janata dal united BJP and Congress is the main parties that hire helicopters during election campaigns for Lok Sabha election.

The main reason why helicopters and planes are a good choice for the election campaign is to quickly reach the maximum number of voters in different constituencies. Many places in India, particularly in the north-east, are difficult to reach because of the poor road network and railway network, which is why aircraft are the only means of rapid transportation. The case of air travel or helicopter travel also becomes very strong when the alternative is a very chaotic airport, flooded with people and constituting the slow road taken by roads or trains. If a politician were to travel to a place like Jaisalmer in Rajasthan to vote, he would first land in Jaipur on a commercial flight and then arrive by road. That would mean that two to three precious days of a cluttered electoral program are wasted in one place. In 2014, G. R. Gopinath, the promoter of Deccan Charters, said that even the politicians who campaigned two months ago could not cover about 200 constituencies after the end of the election. Arrow Aircraft, a leading choice for the rental of a country helicopter, pays special attention to aspects such as security, luxury and security of personalities. Most of the time, political parties reserve helicopters and planes a year in advance, but this air service provider is always ready to respond to the urgent needs and demands of the parties.

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review 2019-02-24 22:57

Reconsidering one's conclusions about an iconic election

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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952 - John Robert Greene

The presidential election of 1952 is one that left a number of enduring impressions upon the American imagination. But while Americans today may remember it for Adlai Stevenson's high-toned campaign or Richard Nixon's famous "Checkers speech," one image stands out above all others: that of the genial, grinning face of Dwight D. Eisenhower. As the Republican nominee Eisenhower ended two decades of Democratic domination of the executive branch and began an eight-year presidency that has become indelibly associated with America in the 1950s.

While there are no shortage of books about Eisenhower or his years as president, nearly seven decades after his election there are only two histories about it. Indeed, John Robert Greene can rightfully be said to dominate the field, since he wrote both of them. As he explains in the introduction to his volume for the University Press of Kansas's American Presidential Elections series, however, this is no mere rehashing of his first book The Crusade, but a thorough revision of his original arguments about Eisenhower's interest in becoming president based on a reexamination of the sources. It is not often that a scholar renounces his or her previous work and even rarer that they do so in a new monograph. That Greene does so warrants a greater degree of respect for the argument he makes here.

Greene begins the book by situating the campaign in the context of the politics of the early 1950s. With the nation mired in a stalemate in Korea and with headlines trumpeting Truman administration scandals and charges of Communist infiltration, there was a widespread sense that the nation was heading in the wrong direction. Republicans hoped to capitalize upon this in the upcoming election, with many viewing Robert Taft as the best standard-bearer. Yet while the Ohio senator was seen as the leading spokesman of the conservative wing of the party, his isolationist views concerned many in the moderate, internationalist branch of the party, who sought someone more representative of their views.

For them that candidate was Eisenhower. While Greene's previous study of the election saw Eisenhower as an active pursuant of the nomination from the start, here he stresses Eisenhower's reluctance to enter electoral politics. One of the strongest parts of Greene's book is his careful reconstruction of the efforts by Eisenhower's supporters to convince their hero to run, which he only agreed to do out of fear of Taft's desire to withdraw the United States from the recently created North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Eisenhower's nomination was far from a sure thing, however, as Greene stresses the dominant position enjoyed by Taft's supporters in the party hierarchy and the role the events in the convention played in winning it for the general.

As Greene demonstrates, though, the Republicans were not the only ones with a reluctant nominee. Having withdrawn from the race after his defeat in the New Hampshire primary, Harry Truman encouraged Adlai Stevenson to enter the race, viewing the Illinois governor as the man best positioned to carry on the president's Fair Deal agenda. Yet Stevenson hesitated to run, and did not emerge as the Democratic nominee until the party's convention. Though Stevenson went on to run a dignified campaign notable for his learned and polished speeches, Greene argues that in the end no Democrat could have triumphed that year against the twin factors of national dissatisfaction with the Truman administration and Eisenhower's enormous popularity with the American people, with the events of the campaign itself largely anticlimactic in terms of deciding its outcome.

Thanks to his willingness to revisit his earlier conclusions, Greene provides his readers with something far more than just an updating of his previous work on the 1952 election but a through and open-minded examination of the contest. In doing so, he benefits not only from the greater availability of archival materials but also the related scholarship that has emerged as a result. While there are a few surprising absences from his list of secondary sources employed, overall the book is a thorough work of scholarship that will likely be the standard by which future works on the subject are judged.

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review 2019-02-10 17:49

Choosing a president in a time of war

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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 - David M. Jordan

The presidential election of 1944 was one that took place under unusual circumstances: for only the second time in the nation’s history, the voters went to the polls to choose a commander-in-chief while the country was at war. Yet as David M. Jordan explains in his history of the contest that year, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s re-election was far from a sure thing. Opinion polls early on showed that, if the war ended before the election, the Republicans would be a slight favorite to win the White House. This made Roosevelt's candidacy an imperative for Democrats, as they believed that even with his increasing health issues victory was possible only with the incumbent at the top of the ticket.

Jordan's book provides a blow-by-blow account of the campaign as it evolved over the course of that year. From it he conveys to his readers a good sense of the personalities involved, the issues at play, and the course of the campaign through the conventions and during the two months in which Roosevelt and his Republican challenger, Thomas E. Dewey, canvassed the nation in their quest to win the White House. Yet for all of the strengths of Jordan's narrative, there is little in the way of an in-depth analysis of the broader factors at play or an effort to situate the contest among the other political contests that year, save for an acknowledgement near the end of the book of a few notable victories and defeats suffered by candidates in other races. The absence of any deeper exploration of the forces that shaped the campaign or decided the result is a real disappointment, one that limits the value of Jordan's account of a presidential election with enormous consequences for the postwar world.

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text 2019-02-09 20:24

Reading progress update: I've read 101 out of 408 pages.

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I've had David Jordan's book on my shelf ever since it was first published, only it was never enough of a reading priority for me. With my recent itch to read books on presidential elections, though, and having just finished a book on the 1940 race, I decided the time had finally come to read it.

So far, though, the experience has been disappointing. Jordan is a capable writer, but his text is all narrative and no analysis. It doesn't help that he tries to set the scene with a little context, which would be fitting for a book geared towards a general audience -- but how much of an audience is there really for a book on a nearly seven-decades-old presidential election? Still, it's proving to be a quick read and I'm learning some interesting details from it. When I'm done with it, though, this one will be going into the book box rather than back on the shelf.

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text 2019-02-06 21:34

Reading progress update: I've read 39 out of 276 pages.

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A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940 - John W. Jeffries

I'm about a third of the way through the University Press of Kansas's "American Presidential Elections" series, and I'm finding that the books generally fall into one of two categories. Either the books provide an incredibly insightful analysis of the election that offers a penetrating snapshot of American national politics at that time, or they provide a fairly bland overview that touches on all of the main events yet doesn't really offer anything new. So far Jeffries's book seems to be in the latter camp, though now that I'm past his fairly rote overview of 1930s politics he'll start to offer more depth and analysis.