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History Of Campaign Donations

Linda talks with Robert E. Mutch, an independent scholar and the author of "Campaigns, Congress, and Courts." (Praeger, 1988) They discuss how and why the first campaign finance laws were enacted during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.

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