Are George W. Bush’s supporters trying to rewrite history?
Steve Kornacki looks at the history of Richard Nixon’s comeback and fall, and the shifting public opinions of former presidents over time.
History repeats lesson of mixing politics with war
Rachel Maddow reports on new evidence of Richard Nixon acting to prolong the Vietnam War to help win office, and points out that while Democrats have correctly recognized that the war in Iraq was a mistake based on lies, Republicans are busy trying to rewrite history rather that learn its lessons.
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Lessons learned from American presidents
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, shares details from this weekend’s issues which focuses on books breaking ground on the way we think about American presidents. The National Memo’s Joe Conason also joins the discussion to talk about the tense relationship between Dwight Eisen
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