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War stories from campaign trails past
John Dickerson is the moderator of CBS's Face the Nation, the political director of CBS News and a veteran Washington journalist for Slate and Time magazine before that. His work covering this year's wild and crazy presidential campaign inspired him to look back at the past.
By Todd Purdum • • 1 min readJohn Dickerson is the moderator of CBS's Face the Nation, the political director of CBS News and a veteran Washington journalist for Slate and Time magazine before that. His work covering this year's wild and crazy presidential campaign inspired him to look back at the past. In his new book, Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History, he reminds us that the country has survived worse elections than this one.
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The full episode
3 of 3Fifteen years later, teaching 9/11 as a lesson in history- 1:52North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear test
- 8:53How do we remember 9/11? What should history teach?
- 42:21War stories from campaign trails pastYou’re reading this