Paul Tsongas: Peace Corps Volunteer Who Refused to Play Santa Claus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Paul Tsongas was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Valentine's Day 1941, a twin to his sister Th...
29 Sep 23min
Nelson Aldrich: Jekyll Island, the Aldrich Plan, and an Income Tax Gamble
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was born in Foster, Rhode Island, in 1841, the son of a mill hand, and b...
29 Sep 25min
Slade Gorton: Fish Stick Heir Who Sued Baseball and Won the Mariners
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Slade Gorton III was born in Chicago in 1928 and grew up in Evanston, heir to the seafood...
29 Sep 21min
Charles Curtis: Kaw Vice President, the Curtis Act, and an Early ERA
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Curtis was born in 1860 in the Kansas territory, of Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi descent o...
29 Sep 21min
Albert Fall's Road From Frontier Murder Trials to a Black Bag of Cash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Albert B. Fall was born in Kentucky in 1861 and was working in a cotton factory by age 11, an ex...
29 Sep 21min
Harry S. Truman: Failed Haberdasher, Battery D Captain, Atomic Decision
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884 and grew up in Independence, where he pract...
29 Sep 24min
William Borah, Lion of Idaho: The Irreconcilable Who Sank the League
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Edgar Borah was born in 1865 in rural Illinois, the seventh of ten children. His father ...
29 Sep 25min
John Quincy Adams: Monroe Doctrine Author, Gag Rule Foe, Amistad Lawyer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Quincy Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1767 to John and Abigail Adams and raised to embo...
29 Sep 22min
