John F. Kennedy: PT-109, the Missile Crisis and a Hidden Medical Regimen
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John F. Kennedy was born in 1917 into great wealth, descended from Irish immigrant families who ...
29 Sep 19min
Claude Pepper: From Red Pepper Defeat to Champion of Older Americans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Claude Pepper was born in rural Alabama, the fourth child of farming parents whose first three c...
29 Sep 22min
Jim Bunning: Perfect Game Pitcher, Union Pioneer and Senate Holdout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jim Bunning, born in Southgate, Kentucky, in 1931, earned an economics degree from Xavier Univer...
29 Sep 22min
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Phantom Radar Blips and a Blank Check for War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode traces how the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 became the legal basis for the Vie...
29 Sep 21min
Terry Sanford: Paratrooper, Education Governor, Duke President, Senator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Terry Sanford was born in North Carolina in 1917, and when the Depression closed his family's ha...
29 Sep 23min
Jeremiah Denton: The POW Who Blinked TORTURE and Became a Senator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jeremiah Denton was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1924 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy i...
29 Sep 19min
Maurine Neuberger: The Teacher Who Outpolled Her Husband and Won the Senate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Maurine Brown was born January 9, 1907, in Cloverdale in Tillamook County, Oregon. She attended ...
29 Sep 19min
Gordon H. Smith: The Udall Cousin Who Became Oregon's Centrist Republican
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gordon H. Smith was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in May 1952 and grew up partly in Bethesda, Maryl...
29 Sep 23min
