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Columnist and PBS political commentator Mark Shields delivers the Eugene J. McCarthy lecture at Saint John's University, speaking about the enduring optimism and pragmatism of the American voter, and how that has played out in the elections from the past few decades.

Mark Shields on American optimism and our politics

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