Political Apologies

NPR

Published December 20, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Renee Montagne examines one thing that Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Richard Nixon and now Trent Lott have in common: the political apology. She speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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