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How the Election of 1968 Reshaped the Democratic Party

opinionjournal.com
Aug 23, 2008
        

It was 40 years ago that the most disastrous modern-day national political convention convened in Chicago. The 1968 Democratic convention contributed to Richard Nixon's victory that fall and, in turn, the prolongation...

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Grounded but not dead as a Lame Duck

mcalesternews.com
Aug 21, 2008
        

By David Greenberg Special to the News-Capital It’s a regular occurrence in American politics. Bill Clinton presented a hilarious video of his lame-duck period at the April 2000 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner,...

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sonicthehedgehog posted in forum

politicalbase.com
Aug 18, 2008 1 related
        

A lawyer, First Lady, Senator, and Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton is a veteran of Washington, D.C. politics. Beginning a career in law in the 1970s, Hillary moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. From 1979...

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The Plight of the Lame Duck

trueblueliberal.com
Aug 17, 2008
        

From The LA Times By David Greenberg It’s a regular occurrence in American politics. Sometime toward the end of a president’s run, the most powerful political leader on Earth suddenly seems to slip from view. His term of office...

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Missed message: Rock the Vote and other campaigns fall on deaf ears

sacbee.com
Aug 14, 2008
        

American democracy is based on the idea that all people should have a voice in their government. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who studied American society in the 1830s, stated "civic zeal seems to be inseparable...

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Family, friends celebrate Magnuson's second-place finish in Tinley

suntimes.com
Aug 11, 2008 6 related
        

Hours before Olympic swimmer Christine Magnuson claimed her silver medal for the 100-meter butterfly in Beijing, friends and family members gathered inside the Gatto restaurant in Tinley Park for a viewing party already had...

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DAVIS: Jackson's 'post-racial' legacy

washingtontimes.com
Aug 11, 2008 3 related
        

Lanny Davis Monday, August 11, 2008 speak in a Chicago hotel ballroom in July 1968, shortly after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and just three months after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King. We were an...

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Review: Mailer's 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago'

newsday.com
Aug 10, 2008
        

BY LIZ BROWN | Special to Newsday MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO, by Norman Mailer, New York Review Books, 223 pp, $14.95 paper. By the time the late Norman Mailer set out to cover the political conventions in the summer of...

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1968: Kirk Douglas talks politics

variety.com
Aug 7, 2008
        

Army Archerd Archive: Outspoken actor chats on primaries -- From The Army Archerd Archive: "Maybe movie stars are overdoing their political stand," notes outspoken Kirk Douglas -- adding -- "particularly in the primaries.

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Seventy-five Years of Storied History About Political Conventions!

esquire.com
Aug 4, 2008
        

Our political conventions may be predictable and bland, but some of the writing they have inspired here has been groundbreaking. Terry Southern: “Grooving in Chi,: Nov. 1968 Esquire sent Terry Southern, William Burroughs, and...

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