Americas contemporary leading authority on the 1960 election, and hes the first historian to truly use mounds of material from the archives to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election including unused sources. Such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate John F Kennedy and the papers of Leon Jaworski and Henry Cabot Lodge, jr. Gilman is a scholar of 20th century president ial history whose two prior books have documented the congressional and Vice President ial periods of Richard Nixons life. And his third entitled the campaign of the century Kennedy Nixon and the election of 1960 does not disappoint. Gilman is joined in conversation this evening with another renowned 20th century president ial historian, dr. Luke nichter who holds the James H Cavanaugh endowed chair in president ial studies at Chapman University dr. Nichter is a New York Times bestselling author whos credits include two volumes of the nixon tapes with historian, doug, brinkley. A biography of Henry Cab
Continues now with Erwin Gellman on the 1960 president ial campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and john kennedy and they close and come of the election. The Richard Nixon campaign is the host of this event with the president ial museum in belinda, california. Tonights conversation will be about the 1960 president ial election, the effects of which continue to reverberate across todays political landscape. We all think we know that that history was well written and well spoken for. But, now, Erwin Gellman has become americas contemporary looted authority on the 1960 election. It is they first historian to use mounds of material from the archive to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election, including unused sources such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate john f. Kennedy. And the papers of several others. He is a scholar of 20th century president ial history who used to prior books have documented Richard Nixons life. His third, and titled the campaign of the century ke
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Well spoken for. But, now, Erwin Gellman has become americas contemporary looted authority on the 1960 election. It is they first historian to use mounds of material from the archive to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election, including unused sources such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate john f. Kennedy. And the papers of several others. He is a scholar of 20th century president ial history who used to prior books have documented Richard Nixons life. His third, and titled the campaign of the century kennedy, nixon, and the election of 1960 does not disappoint. Gellman is joined in conversation this evening with another renowned 20th century historian who holds the chair and president ial studies at university. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose credits include two volumes of the nixon tapes with history in a biography of henry cabinet lodge junior, and he is now at work on a history of 1968 president ial election. Ladies and gentlemen, please join
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from