Shortly after Sarah Palin’s magical mystery bus tour arrived in Philadelphia yesterday, the diva of the Tea Party movement and her family took a rushed half-hour tour of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell Pavilion.
As a crowd of onlookers and a horde of media cameras tracked the former governor’s every step, it reminded me of another event at Philadelphia’s famous Independence Hall — a little-remembered presidential announcement — that took place twenty-three years ago today, some twenty years after Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy unseated a sitting President of his own party over the war in Vietnam.
It was the fourth bid for the presidency waged by the 72-year-old poet-politician.
It’s also the sort of thing readers of Uncovered Politics might enjoy. Click on the link below for the full video, courtesy of the C-SPAN Video Library:
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