Episode 16: THE GIANTS OF THE SENATE and Joe Biden (Part 3) Robert Byrd & Frank Lautenberg

The Life , Career, and Leadership of Robert Byrd, the longest serving legislator in all of American history. He could give a speech on Dog fighting and quote Aristotle. He worked together with Bob Dole on enormously important pieces of legislation through out the 1980's and while they were often adversaries on issues they were obviously friends and they set the example we should all follow on how to work together for the good of all. 

Robert Byrd was the historian of the Senate, he believed that an institution should always exist where one man could stand and question the executive and Federal policy of the nation until he dropped or asked to speak while sitting down. He believed in America and the Constitution as the document that protected our freedom. An old school democrat, an an old school politician that never forgot where he came from nor who he represented. 

And finally a look at Senator Frank Lautenberg, the last World War 2 veteran to serve in the U.S Senate, with his passing ended an era of bipartisan work by the men who built the American Century. Lautenberg was a man of enormous accomplishment, a self made millionaire, who as a Senator raised the legal drinking age to 21 , ended smoking on airplanes, and was a proponent of mass transit and environmental protection.  

This is part 3 of our look at six of the greatest Senators of the Greatest Generation. 

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