When a Supreme Court Justice Leaves a Seat Earlier than Expected, June 13, 1968 | The Oval Office
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America’s presidential carnival.
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Podcast production and edit by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald.
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| 0:42.0 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. to Whistlestop, a presidential podcast. I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. In 1968, the country |
| 0:56.0 | was tearing itself apart. It was the year, said Washington wise man Clark Clifford, quoting |
| 1:01.5 | William Manchester, that everything went wrong. The inner cities burned. |
| 1:06.0 | In Cleveland, young black men took up rifles and fired at policemen parked in their cars passing the time. |
| 1:12.0 | Lashing out at a system that had abandoned them except to incarcerate them. |
| 1:17.0 | National Guard troops marched on city asphalt and broken glass to quell riots. |
| 1:22.0 | Men of fighting age burned their draft cards and fled |
| 1:24.4 | to Canada. To avoid a war America was losing in Vietnam. On campus they pushed |
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