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Episode 3: "The Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-Down Stuff"

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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Lyndon Johnson called his running mate Hubert Humphrey to commiserate about their aching bones. But then he got around to what he really wanted to talk about. A set of newspaper ads that were run by a right-wing group said black people should not vote. They, in fact, would risk arrest and jail if they voted.

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