Chauncey Depew: Vanderbilt's Railroad Chief and The Treason of the Senate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Chauncey Depew was born in Peekskill, New York in 1834, descended from Huguenots among the town'...
29 Sep 21min
Gerald Nye: The Merchants of Death Senator and His Pearl Harbor Speech
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gerald Nye was born in Hortonville, Wisconsin in 1892. His mother died of tuberculosis when he w...
29 Sep 20min
Henry S. Foote: The Senator Who Pulled a Pistol During the 1850 Debate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry S. Foote was born in Virginia in 1804, graduated from Washington College around age 15 in ...
29 Sep 21min
Henry Cabot Lodge: The Senator Who Sank Wilson's League of Nations Treaty
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston in 1850 into the Lodge and Cabot families and grew up on Be...
29 Sep 21min
Jeff Bingaman: The New Mexico Senator Who Unseated an Apollo Moonwalker
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jeff Bingaman was born in El Paso, Texas in 1943 and raised in Silver City, New Mexico, where hi...
29 Sep 21min
Harrison A. Williams Jr.: ERISA Author Sent to Prison Over Abscam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harrison A. Williams Jr., known as Pete, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1919 and graduate...
29 Sep 18min
Senate Bean Soup: The Daily Menu Rule That Survived War and Budget Cuts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The U.S. Senate has served its bean soup every day for more than a century. The modern recipe us...
29 Sep 18min
The Senate Watergate Committee: Ervin, Baker and 319 Hours of Live TV
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate o...
29 Sep 20min
