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  • Home
    • About Ben Bradford
  • Source Notes
    • Of The People
      • Episode 1: "1968"
      • Episode 2: "Long Shot"
      • Episode 3: "Contender"
      • Episode 4: "The Other George"
      • Episode 5: "Radical"
      • Episode 6: "Power"
      • Episode 7: "Democrats for Nixon
    • Landslide: Engines of Outrage
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    • Home
      • About Ben Bradford
    • Source Notes
      • Of The People
        • Episode 1: "1968"
        • Episode 2: "Long Shot"
        • Episode 3: "Contender"
        • Episode 4: "The Other George"
        • Episode 5: "Radical"
        • Episode 6: "Power"
        • Episode 7: "Democrats for Nixon
      • Landslide: Engines of Outrage

Episode 3: "Contender"

Bibliography

Summary: In the first Democratic primary race of 1972, the early frontrunner slips, while the long shot candidate George McGovern breaks out, amid skullduggery by President Nixon.


Episode Bibliography

 

Books:

  • The Liberals’ Moment, by Bruce Miroff, 2007

  • Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, 2008

  • The Long Shot, by Gordon Weil, 1973

  • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973

  • Almost President, by Scott Farris, 2013

 

Articles:

  • New York Times, “McGovern Rescued After Saigon Riot,” September 1971

  • New York Times, “Militia Attacked Meeting,“ September 1971

  • New York Times, “The Taste of Defeat,” May 1972

  • New York Times, “McGovern Discloses 2d Income Report,” March 1972

  • New York Times, “58% Back Muskie in New Hampshire Poll,” February 1972

  • New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, “New Hampshire History in Brief”

  • New York Times, “Muskie Attack on Paper: Many See Senator Hurt,” February 1972

  • Los Angeles Times, “Jane Gray Muskie, 77; Senator’s Wife Figured in Key Moment of ’72 Primary,” December 2004

  • Washington Post, “The Democrat Who Cried (maybe) in New Hampshire And Lost the Presidential Nomination,” February 2020

  • Washington Monthly, “The Story That Still Nags at Me,” February 1987

  • Washington Post, “FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats,” October 1972

  • Time Magazine, The Battle for the Democratic Party, July 1972

  • New York Times, “15 Muskie Victors in New Hampshire,” March 1972

 

Studies:

  • Geoffrey Warner, International Affairs, Leaving Vietnam: Nixon, Kissinger and Ford, 1969-1975: Part One: January 1969-January 1972, 2011

  • Daniels, Follett, and Davis, Hastings Law Journal, The Making of the Clean Air Act, May 2020

  • New Hampshire Employment Security, Wilton New Hampshire Community Profile

 

Historical speeches, news footage, and other archival tape excerpted in the episode were gathered from:

 

  • Dakota Wesleyan University

  • Muskie Archives at Bates College

  • National Archives

  • New Hampshire Institute of Politics

  • New York City Municipal Archives

  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive

  • YouTube


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