Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN. This week on the Lectures and History podcast, a discussion on Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign.

Chapman University professor Luke Nictor discusses the issues with that year's presidential election.

Class starts right after this.

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All right, welcome back. So last time if you remember, where we left off, we were from 64 presidential election and the 68 midterms.

And today we move on in our reading from Evan Thomas on chapters 9 and 10, which really takes us sort of into the 68 campaign.

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