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Steve Cohen: You want to know what this is really about. The Nixon campaign in 1968 and the Nixon White House after that had two…

On the recordJune 16, 2021
You want to know what this is really about. The Nixon campaign in 1968 and the Nixon White House after that had two enemies: The anti-war left and Black people.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen discusses Nixon's strategy to criminalize drugs to target specific communities.

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