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During Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential run, Nebraska played a key role.
Description
In the spring of 1968, Nebraska mattered. Only fifteen states held presidential primaries, and Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy both campaigned hard across the state to prove to party leaders that they could carry farm country in November. Kennedy’s whistle-stop tour took him from the Beatrice State Home to a pointed exchange with students at Creighton University to the neighborhoods of north Omaha. He won decisively, 52 percent to 31, a victory that put him on the road to the nomination. Written by a father and daughter, this is the first book on the 1968 Nebraska primary, a chapter long overlooked in histories of the Kennedy campaign.
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