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RSN: Michael Winship | Ghosts of '68 in Election 2016




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Martin Luther King Jr. meeting with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House in 1966. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Winship, Moyers & Company
Winship writes: "Watching the mad, mad, mad, mad world that is the 2016 presidential campaign, I was trying to remember a presidential campaign that was as jaw-dropping, at least in my lifetime, and easily settled on 1968. For those too young to remember, imagine: As fighting in Vietnam rages on and the Tet Offensive makes us all too aware of the futility of our Southeast Asian military fiasco, Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy decides to run as an antiwar candidate against incumbent President Lyndon Johnson."
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