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We ended the election season with an episode about the nail-biting 1968 presidential election

and the race to the wire between Humphrey and Nixon.

I picked up a book, 1968, by Charles Kaiser, and it's one of those things that I wish I had

prior to the election.

Not that I think I got anything wrong in the election podcast, but just some little flavor.

And there are some nuggets there, particularly about the entry of McCarthy into the 1968

presidential race to take on Johnson.

His run in New Hampshire, a surprise to some.

He gets up on the Senate floor and speaks that he's going to run against Lyndon Johnson.

And here, Robert F. Kennedy, who is a senator from New York, you have to understand he got to be senator in 1964 with

Lyndon Johnson's help. Why do Robert Kennedy, great Kennedy name, right, needs Lyndon Johnson's

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Well, Robert Kennedy, you know, is originally from Massachusetts.

He was running for Senate in New York, and his opponent was saying he was a carpetbagger.

And so having the president, who at this time, in the wake of Kennedy's assassination,

Linda Johnson takes over, he's about to win in a big blowout election, he's popular everywhere,

may not be the most popular person personally with everyone, but as president,

he goes up in campaigns for Kennedy.

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