Foreign Collusion and the Dragon Lady | The Nixon Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by John Dickerson, each installment revisits a memorable (or even a forgotten) moment from America's past.
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Podcast production and edit by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald.
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| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of the presidency. I'm John Dickerson of |
| 0:54.6 | Face the Nation. An exotic beauty known as the Dragon Lady helped the Nixon |
| 1:02.2 | campaign collude with a foreign government |
| 1:04.8 | to defeat Hubert Humphrey in 1968. As a beauty pageant promoter promised |
| 1:09.9 | President Trump's son negative information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. |
| 1:14.1 | During the 2016 campaign, we returned to the story of Anna Shano. |
| 1:19.7 | From the Humphrey and Nixon campaign and the last minute efforts by President Lyndon Johnson |
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