Overview

For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. As a soldier of the New Deal and the Great Society, he amassed one of the most prolific legislative records in senate history, sponsoring hundreds of billsfrom Medicare to the Peace Corps to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Top Cast

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Mary Easter

Narrator

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

Muriel Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

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Everett Dirksen

Self

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Clark Clifford

Self

Richard J. Daley

Self

Betty Ford

Self

Jimmy Carter

Self

Bob Dole

Self

Spiro Agnew

Self (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)