<p class="">Lyndon Baines Johnson is now the president of the United States. How far will he go to keep it that way.</p><p class="">Thanks to tapes LBJ made of his own phone conversations we get a view into history like we’ve never heard before on Raise The Dead. Power and paranoia on full display. His battles with old nemesis Bobby Kennedy lead a man on the brink of landslide to draft a letter of resignation. All the while, Vietnam looms is the distance.</p><p class="">Meanwhile, Barry Goldwater deals with a floundering campaign as a prime example of DC’s excess continues to fester.</p><p class="">All that and the birth of the modern television campaign ad in the season finale of Raise The Dead.</p><p class="">Get the full story:</p><p class="">RaiseTheDeadPodcast.com/Complete</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>