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1. Campaign Desk

   Remembering the RFK Campaign

   March 31, 2008 11:12 AM

   Forty years ago Senator Robert Kennedy declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. His campaign lasted eighty-five days. It began on Capitol Hill in the ornate and cavernous Senate Caucus Room on March 16 and ended on June 5... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   “The Snub,” Circa 1980

   January 30, 2008 09:21 AM

   The Washington Post headline read, “Barack Obama, Camelot’s New Knight/ The Shining Armor of JFK’s Legacy.” Presiding over the knighting ceremony was the last of the original knights of Camelot, Teddy Kennedy. It was a joyful occasion with a... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Buzzing the Nation With Goldwater

   January 21, 2008 02:26 PM

   It was news when the McCain campaign finally had enough money to charter a plane to fly across state lines from New Hampshire to Grand Rapids, Michigan; it was news when Obama’s chartered Gulfstream clipped the wing of a parked... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Lessons From Concessions Past

   January 15, 2008 01:34 PM

   The most honest political concession speech of the last quarter century was made in a rented motel ballroom in Columbus, Ohio on November 6, 1972. The conceder was the incumbent Democratic governor of Ohio, John Gilligan, who had just been... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Romney Points his Finger

   January 8, 2008 10:01 AM

   Mitt Romney makes no secret of his belief that his father in heaven is looking down at the presidential race. Romney told David Kirkpatrick of The New York Times that George Romney is saying, "Let me in there, coach!... Continue reading

6. Bio

   Roger Mudd

   Roger Mudd was a congressional correspondent for CBS News for eighteen years and chief Washington correspondent for NBC News for five (and a co-anchor there for two years). He has also been a political correspondent for the NewsHour, documentary host on The History Channel, and taught at Princeton and at Washington and Lee. His book The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News will be published by PublicAffairs in March. Mudd is one of several veteran journalists who are appearing as guest writers for CJR's Campaign Desk during the course of the presidential campaign.