Summary: <br> <br> As we work to make the change to preparing the Political Junkie for its new home, we used this week’s program to offer three previously aired interviews that we think you’ll enjoy.<br> <br> The first is a conversation with Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution, who has a new book out explaining why our presidential nominating system came to be. New rules adopted after the 1968 election moved the decision-making process from the party bosses to the voters, in increased number of primaries. Is it better today? You decide.<br> <br> With President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland in limbo, we talk to author Kevin McMahon about President Nixon’s ill-fated Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell in 1969 and 1970 — both rejected by the Senate.<br> <br> <br> And with a presidential race that seems to veer into entertainment, playwright and lyricist Murray Horwitz is here with an amusing conversation about the role of presidents in movies.<br> <br> <a href="http://moviepilot.com/posts/3704500">Photo from the film “The American President”</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://media.blubrry.com/politicaljunkie/content.blubrry.com/politicaljunkie/Podcast_FINAL_4-6-16_mixdown.mp3"></a><a href="http://krpoliticaljunkie.com/subscribe/"></a><br> <br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>
