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The Real Mark Twain, Part Two of Two
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Corruption, Then and Now
Aired 1/19/2006
Bribery, graft, extortion, cronyism, money laundering. Political corruption has a lot of names but whatever it’s called there seems to be more of it than ever. American political scandals pre-date the founding of the country, but has their essential character changed? Will politics always be tainted by money or can we help clean it up by looking at America’s own history?
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Norman Ornstein
resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of ’The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track’
Originally Aired: 1/19/2006
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