Episode 68: 1968 Politics with former LBJ Appointments Secretary James Jones
Extreme Mortman · C-SPAN
August 24, 201830m 45s
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Show Notes
On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast our guest is James Jones, former Appointments Secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, former Democratic Congressman and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. He talks about 1968 politics, including LBJ's decision not to seek another term, the violent DNC Convention in Chicago(50 years ago this week), Vietnam War demostrations, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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