Episode 3: "The Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-Down Stuff"

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing people’s right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning on race. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson tell the story of a time uncannily similar to our own – in the early 1960s. And how it’s both a parallel to our present moment and the origin of conflicts playing out today.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:07.0	It's President.
0:09.0	How are you, Hubert?
0:11.0	It's election day.
0:12.0	November 3rd.
0:14.0	President Lyndon Johnson has called up his running mate,
0:17.0	Hubert Humphrey.
0:18.0	Well, I'm fine, and how are you?
0:20.0	Oh, I'm just kind of broken up.
0:22.0	I'm aching all over. I got a headache.
0:24.6	My damn bones.
0:25.8	Hips hurting me and I just, I'm just worn out.
0:29.5	I just, I just,
0:30.0	The 1964 campaign had taken a toll on Linden Johnson.
0:34.8	While he was making this phone call,
0:37.1	he simultaneously was getting a massage
0:40.8	during the phone call.
0:42.4	And they rubbing me, I got a bad hip.
0:44.0	I got a, I've been standing on my right leg.
0:47.0	Your hip ever hurts you?
0:48.0	Yes, sir, Rea, I'll tell you, you know that I had a period in this campaign where I bought my hips and legs were going to kill me.
0:55.2	President Johnson was calling that day to thank his running mate,
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