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Covering the Election & Context: Cuban Missile Crisis

October 31, 2012

On this episode of Dialogue at the Wilson Center we discuss coverage of the presidential election with award winning journalist, Martin Tolchin, who capped a forty year career with the New York Times by founding The Hill newspaper. He then moved on to help launch Politico. In the second segment former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, Timothy Naftali, currently a National Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, will provide some context for new released documents regarding the Cuban missile crisis on its 50th anniversary.  

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Martin Tolchin

Martin Tolchin

Senior Scholar;
Former Congressional Correspondent, New York Times; Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief, The Hill Newspaper
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