Owen Brewster vs. Howard Hughes: The Senator Cross Examined in 1947
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ralph Owen Brewster was born in Dexter, Maine, in 1888, a direct descendant of Mayflower leader ...
29 Sep 22min
Hiram Johnson: Graft Prosecutor Who Gave California the Recall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hiram Johnson was born in Sacramento in 1866, the son of Grove L. Johnson, a legislator and cong...
29 Sep 18min
Daniel Akaka: Hawaiian Speaking Principal Who Fought for the Akaka Bill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Daniel Akaka was born in Honolulu in 1924, decades before statehood, to a family with Chinese an...
29 Sep 19min
The Senate Nuclear Option: How 51 Votes Overrule a 67 Vote Rule
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode explains the Senate maneuver known as the nuclear option. Changing a standing rule ...
29 Sep 26min
Hiram Fong: Plantation Child to Hawaii's Only Republican U.S. Senator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hiram Fong was born in 1906 in the Kalihi neighborhood of Honolulu, one of 11 children of Canton...
29 Sep 21min
Harry F. Byrd: Pay As You Go Budgets and Virginia's Massive Resistance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry Flood Byrd was born in 1887 into an old Virginia family whose fortune had been lost. At ab...
29 Sep 21min
Harris Wofford: Blue Bomb Pamphlets, the Peace Corps, and a 1991 Upset
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harris Wofford was born in New York City in 1926, and at 11 he traveled the world for six months...
29 Sep 23min
Happy Chandler: Jackie Robinson's Commissioner Who Sent Tanks to Sturgis
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler was born in rural Kentucky in 1898, and by age three his mother...
29 Sep 20min
