A lecture Rhodes Professor Michael Nelson gave at Southern Methodist University in the spring recently aired on C-SPAN. View it here.
The subject of the lecture is the 1968 presidential election, and Nelson discusses how and why Richard Nixon′s victory came at a pivotal time in American politics.
Nelson also is author of a new book titled Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government.