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>> while working in the south, 27-year-old john lewis was introduced to the woman who would become his wife, lillian miles. >> i said to myself, this young lady is really hip. and i start talking with her. >> she read everything about johns background and respected him tremendously. >> she was wonderful, beautiful, charming and she taught me a great deal. >> within a year the couple was married. lewis also began a new work assignment in 1968 traveling for robert kennedys presidential campaign. >...

>> lets move, people. >> shaken but undeterred, king returns south. he arrived in memphis, tennessee in march 1968 to show support for striking sanitation workers. >> a lot of kings advisers told him dont go to memphis. its going to take away from your message. its going to take away from your planning, but king insists. were here to help garbage workers. these are the exact types of people were supposed to be helping. >> april 4th, 1968. martin luther king jr. stepped out of room 306 onto the b...

Possibly joining his legal team in june 2017. the limited conversation also turned to the special counsel. >> he was interested in that and wanted to know what i thought about his integrity, i said that he is a straight shooter. >> he served as attorney general for bush 41 and in 1968 he suggested he was a strong candidate because he didnt need the job. >> i my position in life where i can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences. >> reports to pick up an investigation into ...

When nixon won that presidential election in 1968, he appointed that same john mitchell, the guy who had run his campaign to be attorney general. attorney general of the united states. now john mitchell would eventually be convicted on multiple felonies in conjunction with the watergate scandal and would serve 19 months in prison. nixons second attorney general was a man named richard kleindeitz. his tenure as attorney general ended on the day when nixon tried to stop the watergate investigation...

Your country. i shall not seek and will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. thats all i can remember word for word in full sentences from the last 90 years of the american presidency. it is not about the eloquence of the president. weve had no more eloquent president than barack obama but his sentences were not sound bites and perhaps more importantly he was never at the cen...

Now. good evening, rachel. >> thank you very much my friend. thank you at home for joining us this hour. happy monday. there has been a lot of news today. theres been a lot of news in the past couple of days. this is sort of an important moment, i think, that we are in, in the trump presidency, potentially in modern american history. but in terms of understanding whats about to happen next, i think we actually need to start with a little modern american history. in 1968, when richard nixon ran f...

Party for another term as your president. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. thats all i can remember word for word in full sentences from the last 90 years of the american presidency. it is not about the eloquence of the president. weve had no more eloquent president than barack obama but his sentences were not sound bites and perhaps more importantly he was never at the center of a scandal or collapsingan presidency and thas what produces some ...

We have big macs, quarter pounders with cheese. we have everything that i like, that you like. i know theres nothing you could have thats better than that, right? >> donald trump welcoming the clemson tigers to the white house today. that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week together. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. happy monday. there has been a lot of news today. theres been a lot of news in the past c...

And asked who he would like to rub against. he said this. >> well, i dont want to pick anyone out but, you know, a lot of people say biden is doing okay but he was always a 1%er. he ran 1968 times and never got above 1% and then obama came along and took him off the trash heap and he became a vice president and now he is probably leading but he is basically a 1% guy. he is weak! >> lets discuss. bring back the panel. siraj hasmi and julian zeleny. julian is the author after new book "fault lines...

History of the united states since 1974." which traces the lines of division in contemporary america that has led to our present state of a fairs. >> kevin, lets start with you. you look at the years between 1968 and 1974 and it really was a crack in time. i remember campaigning, my first week campaigning. i told the story before. my first day. my parents said so what did you find out out there? i said i found out everybodys still living in 1968 and youre either john wayne or jane fonda. the two...