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Episode 80: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 10) The Democratic Primary, Vietnam and a farewell to J. Edgar Hoover
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After President Richard Nixon returned from China he would have to catch up on all he missed as the Democratic Party began its campaign to challenge him in earnest. It would be a race that would feature one of the great come from nowhere candidates in all of American history, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. He would be up against Senator Edmund Muskie, the presumed frontrunner, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey the 1968 nominee, an Alabama Governor George Wallace who had run for President as an independent in 1968.
McGovern had two things going for him, he was…
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