http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?pr...ct-2004&prgId=7 and search for/scroll down to "Gracie Allen's 'Surprise' White House Run"
I was particularly struck by one part of her platform - as an answer to the problem of unemployment she would have the government provide free correspondence courses, thus allowing people to be unemployed in two or three different kinds of work.
See ... even back in 1940 they were getting ready to train people for the jobs of the 21st century.