The Long, Complicated History Of American Political Secrecy
NPR
Thursday, June 22, 2017
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President Lyndon Johnson greets J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (left) at the White House in Washington on June 21, 1967. (Henry Burroughs/AP)
Senate Republicans have spent weeks crafting their latest health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in secret
But according to historians Nathan Connolly (@ndbconnolly) and Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755), it’s hardly the first time American politics have been shaped behind closed doors.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Connolly and Freeman, co-hosts of the podcast BackStory, which is produced at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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