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Government

  • Talking about FDR, with Robert Vaughn

    Oct. 17, 1977
  • Harald Edelstam discusses his work in Chile before and after the military coup of 1973

    Jun. 3, 1974
  • Nicholas Johnson

    Studs Terkel discusses commercial and public broadcasting Nicholas Johnson of the FCC

    Apr. 1, 1971
  • Allan Ryan discusses his book "Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America"

    Jan. 29, 1985
  • Pablo Picasso

    Studs Terkel comments and presents Picasso unveiling ceremony on its 30th anniversary

    Aug. 15, 1997
  • Panel of women recipients discuss being welfare recipients in Chicago

    Jan. 1, 1969
  • Discussing the book "Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma" with the author Professor Charles V. Hamilton

    Apr. 10, 1991
  • Gene R. (Gene Robert) La Rocque in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 14, 1987
  • Peter van der Linde discusses his book “Time Bomb”

    Mar. 1978
  • Discussing the book "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II" with author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Oct. 5, 1994
  • David Halberstam discusses his book, "The Fifties"

    Jun. 11, 1993
  • Laurence Shoup discusses his book, "The Carter Presidency and Beyond: Power and Politics in the 1980s"

    1970
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