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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Obama Apologizes, Sort Of, For Hiroshima (2016)
Description: It’s May 26th. This day in 2016, President Obama offered remarks at a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima, Japan.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss Obama’s speech, whether it constituted a proper acknowledgment of the US’s use of nuclear weapons, and how Obama grappled with the political dimensions of his “apology tour.”
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