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RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics

RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics

FromMy History Can Beat Up Your Politics


RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics

FromMy History Can Beat Up Your Politics

ratings:
Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Chris Matthews of Hardball joins the program!! He has just finished his book Bobby Kennedy - A Raging Spirit.  Chris talks about RFK and how his history and childhood, and his relationship with Joe Kennedy Senior that informed his own politics. Those politics, according to Matthews, were just starting to develop at the end of his life, as he sought to defend society's less fortunate, while keeping working people of all races in mind.  In the interview, we discuss: RFK - Brash Political Operator or Inspiring Leader? Kennedy on Civil Rights Kennedy and Joe McCarthy - Did he do enough? Reagan and RFK Would Bobby Kennedy have won in 1968?
Released:
Jul 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. Bruce Carlson applies as much historical context as possible to politics and while he's at it, tells a few stories.