Hello and welcome to Whistlestop. I'm John Dickerson, the host of

Face the Nation. Did Howard Dean's presidential campaign really collapse because

he produced a vociferation in which he passed air through his vocal folds with greater force than is commonly used in close distance vocalization.

With less than a week to go before real voters cast their ballots in the

Iowa Precinct Caucasus of 2016, we'd like to revisit that death yell nail, that

freaky shrieky that Howler, that Went Sour.

It is one of the signature moments in one of my favorite quadrennial political events

of all the ones taking place in the many rings of the presidential circus.

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Squarespace build it beautiful. Our whistle stop today starts in the pages of the history of American presidential elections.

Fourth edition, Volume 3.

We are thumbing through the volume to the entry on the 2004 presidential race and it's

the kind of thing we do in the third person plural because it's just that kind of a

big book. In the entry under the heading defining quotations of the election of 2004 we find several from that season.

Quote, I actually did vote for the 87 billion before I voted against it.

John Kerry is quoted as saying.

There's a partial transcript of President Bush

responding at a press conference at length

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