Dan Coats: From Dan Quayle's Staffer to Contradicting Trump on Russia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Daniel Ray Coats was born in 1943 in Jackson, Michigan, served in the Army Corps of Engineers fr...
29 Sep 21min
Clair Engle's Silent Vote: Pointing to His Eye to End the 1964 Filibuster
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clair Engle was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1911, named for the aunt who helped deliver ...
29 Sep 22min
Charles Percy: Boy Wonder CEO and His Daughter's Unsolved 1966 Murder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles H. Percy was born in Pensacola, Florida, in 1919 and raised in Chicago, where his Sunday...
29 Sep 20min
Carl Schurz: Sewer Escape, Spandau Jailbreak, and a Senate Seat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carl Schurz was born in Prussia in 1829 and left school a year early because of his family's fin...
29 Sep 19min
Burton K. Wheeler: From a Butte Poker Loss to Blocking FDR's Court Plan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Burton K. Wheeler, a Massachusetts born lawyer fresh from the University of Michigan, was bound ...
29 Sep 24min
Boies Penrose, the Big Grizzly Who Ran Pennsylvania's Machine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Boies Penrose was born in 1860 into an elite Philadelphia family: one ancestor was a shipbuilder...
29 Sep 21min
Bob Bennett of Utah: Watergate, Franklin Planners, a Final Apology
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Foster Bennett was born in 1933 in Salt Lake City, the grandson of Heber J. Grant, sevent...
29 Sep 20min
Bob Bartlett's 435-Hour Threat That Forced Alaska Statehood
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett, born in Seattle in 1904, graduated from the University of Alaska in...
29 Sep 22min
