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Monday February 17, 2003

'Fraud of the Century'

February 17, 2003 • John Ydstie hosts a discussion on the controversy over the election of the 19th U.S. president, Rutherford B. Hayes.

'Fraud of the Century'

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Wednesday October 30, 2002

Minnesota Senate Seat

October 30, 2002 • In Minnesota, the Democratic Party has officially nominated former Vice President Walter Mondale to run for the U.S. Senate.

Minnesota Senate Seat

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Monday July 8, 2002

Remembering the First Nationally Televised Convention

July 8, 2002 • Commentator and former CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite tells the story behind his initial experience as a TV network anchorman. It happened in 1952 in Chicago at the first-ever nationally televised convention. That was the Republican convention. Later that summer, Cronkite handled the same chore at the Democratic session. Although he'd never attended a political convention, or done national TV, he was a hit.

Remembering the First Nationally Televised Convention

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Wednesday April 5, 2000

Talk of the Nation

President Clinton's Impeachment Revisited

April 5, 2000 • A year after the impeachment of President Clinton, scholars, authors and members of the media analyzed and disagreed about what happened during that divisive time.

President Clinton's Impeachment Revisited

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Wednesday November 3, 1999

World

Iran Hostage Crisis Anniversary

November 3, 1999 • In part one of a three part series looking back on the Iran hostage crisis NPR's Ted Clark reports that twenty years ago this week, Iranian students stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

Iran Hostage Crisis Anniversary

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Friday October 15, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

October 15, 1999 • Larry Massett reports on the strangest Presidential phone call of all time. Lyndon Johnson talks to astronaut Scott Carpenter while Carpenter is breathing helium-enriched atmosphere. Carpenter was decompressing from 30 days under the sea.

Lost & Found Sound

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Thursday March 4, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

F.D.R.'s Inaugural

March 4, 1999 • Today marks the 66th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address, famous for the words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." We'll look back.

F.D.R.'s Inaugural

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Friday February 19, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Center of the World

February 19, 1999 • NPR's year-long Friday collaboration with independent producers Jay Allison and the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) -- a series called LOST AND FOUND SOUND. Today we present an item from our QUEST FOR SOUND, in which listeners call 202-408-0300 and tell us about recordings they have - or have stumbled upon. Reverend Dwight Frizzell of Kansas City, Missouri found a recording of the late President Harry S. Truman from 1957 -- five years after Truman left office. The tape is of Truman dedicating a shopping center to be built on the site of his boyhood home. With music Frizzell and a friend added, this remarkable speech winds up being a powerful, and unintended elegy to a passing era.

Center of the World

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Monday February 15, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Eyewitness at Gettysburg

February 15, 1999 • Quest for Sound curator Jay Allison has unearthed a unique recording:

Eyewitness at Gettysburg

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Thursday August 6, 1998

Morning Edition

From 1998: Lewinsky and Whitewater Plague Clinton Administration

August 6, 1998 • Presidential historian Michael Beschloss talks about the effects of the Whitewater investigation and the Monica Lewinsky scandal on the presidency. He says the investigation weakens an already diminished office.

From 1998: Lewinsky and Whitewater Plague Clinton Administration

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Wednesday February 25, 1998

Political Scandals

Romancing The Prez

February 25, 1998 • Commentator Patt Morrison makes the point that presidential affairs are nothing new. While the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair caused quite a stir, she says there are far more romantic presidential tales to tell.

Romancing The Prez

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