Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop. 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?

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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 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

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