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It’s Hard to Imagine a Worse Idea Than a Hybrid Democratic Convention
The Nation· 3 hours agoThe ensuing riot, broadcast on national television, is widely blamed for propelling Richard Nixon...
‘We Are the World Power.’ How Joe Biden Leads
Time Magazine· 31 minutes agoJoe Biden makes his way through the West Wing telling stories. It was more than 50 years ago, Biden says, and Richard Nixon told National Security...
Can the “OG Organizer” Keep Biden in the White House?
The Nation· 3 hours agoHeather Booth has a secret, of sorts. In 1968, in the first presidential election in which she could...
Celebrating Bill Walton: A Giant for Justice
High Times· 2 hours agoBill was arrested during a 1972 war protest on the campus of UCLA, the prestigious public college where Walton happened to be the nation’s finest basketball player for the ...
Richard M. Nixon
Mountain View Telegraph· 4 days agoWhen Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, he declared that his goal was “to bring the American people together.” During his presidency, Nixon ended...
10 Cent Beer Night: 50 years ago, Cleveland's ill-fated MLB promotion ended in a riot
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 1 hour agoDangerously crazy. Stupid, really." It was the night of June 4, 1974. Two months after Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, two months before Richard < ...
Why at least five of the last six US presidents have come to one Western Maryland airport
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoYou just rearrange your schedule a little bit.” Asked about the earliest president to fly into the...
Cal Thomas: What the ‘New Nixon’ could teach Donald Trump
Washington Times-Herald· 6 days agoFifty-six years ago in August 1968, Richard Nixon achieved what The New York Times called “the...
Rachel Maddow Sets ‘Ultra’ Season 2 Podcast Premiere Date, Exploring New Chapter in the History of...
Variety· 22 hours agoIn the second season of “Ultra,” Maddow “uncovers a web of troubling forces at work on the American...
The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now
The Nation· 2 hours agoWritten over the course of 1980, the 3,000-page manuscript (1,093 pages when published as a book) reflected the aspirations of a surging political...