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Episode 1: 1968 - Agnew v. Muskie
Running Mates
English - February 08, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBPolitics News History vice president postrider running mates Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Lars and Michael discuss the 1968 running mates in our first full episode. In a divided and tormented nation, Richard Nixon picks Spiro Agnew in an attempt to woo southern voters with a law and order campaign and Hubert Humphrey picks Edmund Muskie to appease anti-war activists, cutting off his chances in key states.