Episode 3: Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen : Trust and Respect

BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback · Jan 10, 2021 · 1h 19m

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Two old friends from when one was a brand new Congressman and the other a congressional elevator operator. But fate would land one in the White House through assassination, and it would coincide with the culmination of 100 years of struggle for civil rights in America.

Lyndon Johnson would make it his priority to "finish what Lincoln began" but to do it he would have to turn to an old friend, from a different political party, another man like Lincoln, from Illinois, Everett Dirksen , the Republican Leader, to get it done.

Here watch them horse-trade and maneuver past a maze…