Jesse Jackson - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Jesse Jackson Index / People Transcripts Pete Rouse ...the Clintons. He also appeared with Jesse Jackson and former President George H. W. Bus... Arne Duncan ...on? Yes. Ben Jealous, with Reverend [Jesse L.] Jackson [Sr.], with other folks. Yes, it was a... Jon Favreau ...is Bill Clinton saying, “Well, you know Jesse Jackson [Sr.] won South Carolina in 1988, an... Jim Messina ...be delegates to the city convention for Jesse Jackson in '88. When I got to the University o... ...more about what you did to organize for Jesse Jackson in 1988? I got all my hipste... ...if you wanted to go take it. Why Jesse Jackson , as opposed to the other candidates? ... ...Michael Dukakis was kind of boring. Jesse Jackson was cool. Idaho was not a place wher... Samantha Tubman ...man running for president; you've got Jesse Jackson ; you've Reverend [Joseph E.] Lowery... ...guys from NBC who went on the road with Jesse Jackson when he ran for president. You ha... Tyler Lechtenberg ...was the first—I guess I was alive when Jesse Jackson was running, but he was probably th... Melissa Winter ...someone in the crowd. It may even be Jesse [L.] Jackson [Sr.] crying. And Oprah [Winfrey] i... ...Thank you for that story. It was Jesse Jackson crying. It was Jesse Jackson? Yeah... ...It was Jesse Jackson crying. It was Jesse Jackson ? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, nothing gets m... Jeremy Bernard ...in the area where Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson , all the—no one thought about wha... Michael Strautmanis ...was done, in my understanding, in the Reverend [Jesse] Jackson area; part of what he wanted to creat... ...campaigns, that playbook that Jesse Jackson wrote himself, which was based on a lo... ...DC, one of my friends was Congressman Jesse [L.] Jackson Jr., and my very best friend was hi... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Science Science go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Wartime Presidency Wartime Presidency