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Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

Jul 10, 2022, 6 tweets

On @TODAY show, Joe Garagiola, Barbara Walters and Frank McGee from Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:

Jesse Jackson and Illinois delegates at 1972 Democratic convention, fifty years ago this week:

In red, white and blue, Barbara Walters of @TODAYshow interviews feminists Bella Abzug, Liz Carpenter, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan at Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:

Shirley MacLaine and California delegates, Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week: #AP

Shirley Chisholm demonstration, 1972 Democratic convention:

Turned out that the anonymous author of the epithet “acid, amnesty and abortion,” which Nixon’s campaign used against McGovern in 1972, was Thomas Eagleton, in an off-the-record interview with Robert Novak.

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