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But 1964, 104 years later before they did it again. 1964, of course, the year after jfk was assassinated in office, lyndon johnson was the brand-new incumbent president running for his first full term in his own right. in that year, 1964, for the first time in 104 years that magazine got off the pot again for the first time since lincoln. it's interesting. they said sort of nice enough things about lbj. they said, for example, that they admired him for, quote, the continuity with which he has maintained our foreign policy. which is nice. that clearly would not be enough of a reason for them to...

And at the atlantic they worried about, according to their endorsement that year, they worried about goldwater's cavalier attitude toward nuclear weapons, on civil rights they worried that his proposal to let states in the deep south make their own decisions on segregation and civil rights, they thought it would establish an american apartheid. stumbling down the road taken by south africa. which i think actually is a very good point and probably true. they clearly disagreed with barry goldwater on the issues of the day. they were frankly just scared about the prospect of him being president. ...

Path toward a civil war in this country over the issue of slavery. talk about a consequential election, right? by the time that election was being held in 1860, there was a relatively new anti-slavery magazine that was becoming influential called the atlantic monthly. three years after they were founded, the founding editor of that magazine decided that the atlantic monthly would make a presidential endorsement. they in fact endorsed abraham lincoln in the presidential election of 1860. to endorse lincoln that year was to go out on a limb in terms of party politics. because the republican part...

Clearly that's not what is moving the editors of the atlantic to make only their third presidential endorsement since 1857. not that they have political lust for hillary clinton. in fact, they spell it out. if hillary clintonp facing mitt romney or john mccain or george w. bush or for that matter any of the leading candidates that donald trump vanquished in the republican primaries, we would not have contemplated making this endorsement. because they don't make endorsements, right? two since 1857? they don't make endorsements. but the reason they broke that rule and made this endorsement today...

To donald trump, they put themselves on record as saying no to trump, that will be a striking part of the history of this election. we're still watching every day. but as far as we can tell here on this show, there still has not been a single newspaper endorsement of donald trump in the general election. we believe that is unprecedented maybe not just in the modern day but in the history of running for president. now, because of it history with endorsements, because of the freaking lincoln factor, i think this particular endorsement today from the atlantic, i think that went off like a firecra...