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1968: The New Hampshire presidential primary

John Dickerson looks back on one of the most monumental political contests in U.S. history: The first Democratic presidential primary in 1968, in New Hampshire, at which a political upstart, the anti-war candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy, took on a sitting president, and drove Lyndon B. Johnson to a decision that shocked the political world.
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