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It\\u2019s May 19th. Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer, and special guest Joanne Freeman (Backstory) discuss one of the more notorious incidents in U.S. political history \\u2014 when Senator Charles Sumner was severely beaten with a cane by a political opponent inside the Congressional chamber.
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