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Chicago up next your friend of mine, Bill Crystal. Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. It's Monday

August 19th of political world is headed back to Chicago the host of more

nominating conventions in any other city in America most famously that conflagration of 1968 to discuss it.

Bill Crystal, who is already middle-aged in 1968,

editor-in-large of the board co- author of Morning Shots newsletter.

How you doing, Bill?

I'm doing fine.

It's just in response to that cruel, cruel comment.

I'm just going to point out that more famous than 1968 probably was 1860.

Your first convention

that nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1932,

the Democratic convention that nominated FDR.

So two major, both on fourth ballot,

one case, sixth and the other the other I think so both things that

did not have to happen that happened and probably influenced history quite a lot and

we might have that again this time well before I want to do a deep dive in the

convention but before we get there it's Monday I was

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