Episode #155: Giving Thanks to Great Political Memories




Ken Rudin's Political Junkie show

Summary: Because we’re all spending Thanksgiving with friends and families this week, we decided to leave you with three past interviews that are completely timeless and worth another listen.<br> Before there were Bushes &amp; Clintons, there were the Tafts.  Former Ohio Gov. <a href="https://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_ohio/col2-content/main-content-list/title_taft_bob.default.html">Bob Taft</a> remembers his grandfather, Mr. Republican himself, Sen. <a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Taft.htm">Robert A. Taft</a>.<br> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/team/john-dickerson/">John Dickerson</a>, the host of “Face the Nation,” has a new book that is filled with his favorite political moments in history.  He brings many of them to life, not only in his book “Whistlestop,” but on the Political Junkie.<br> And, <a href="http://larrytye.com">Larry Tye</a> talks about his new biography, “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” and chronicles how <a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/The-Kennedy-Family/Robert-F-Kennedy.aspx">RFK</a> went from working with <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-mccarthy-9390801">Joe McCarthy</a> in the early 1950s to fighting for peace in Vietnam and social justice in the 1960s … until his tragic assassination in 1968.<br> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/04/rfk-and-the-healing-power-of-improvisation.html">Photo via John Lent/AP</a><br> Music used in this podcast:<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Popcorn/dp/B002NRW2YK">Popcorn by Hot Butter</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Sly-Family-Stone/dp/B00006NSH7">A Family Affair by Sly &amp; The Family Stone</a><br> <a href="https://youtu.be/qu7hUQHqexE">Howard Dean Mega Mix</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hFMy4pTrs">Abraham, Martin &amp; John by Dion</a><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>