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President Obama has reversed course on proposed smog standards, a victory for business interests that had decried the smog restrictions on the grounds that they should be postponed -- until at least 2013 -- due to the recession. The…

On Thursday's broadcast, Gwen Ifill talks to historian and NewsHour regular Richard Norton Smith and journalist Carl Cannon about failed presidential candidates who still managed to change political history. The subject is explored in a C-SPAN series starting…