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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: BML: Right for the Wrong Reason?
Description: In October of 1973, the world was still reeling from the Yom Kippur war. Egypt, defeated and embarrassed, had requested that the United States send troops as “peacekeepers” while the Soviet Union was threatening to do the same. Cooler heads would ultimately prevail.
At the same time, the nation was still broiling over the Kent State incident, and while US troops had at last been withdrawn from South Vietnam, the underlying cause of the Kent State tragedy was on the mind of Congress. with Watergate rapidly becoming more and more a major issue, some began to worry that an u...