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Radio 3,18 Oct 2016,15 mins

SeriesAll My Presidents

The Evil that Men Do Lives After

The Essay

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Michael Goldfarb looks back at the Presidents of his lifetime, from Eisenhower to Obama, focusing on how their actions and words have filtered down into ordinary Americans' lives. In this episode, he reflects on why he remembers everything about Richard Nixon and so little about one of the most important presidents of his lifetime, Lyndon Johnson.

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