Show Notes
Kelly Johnston, former Secretary of the Senate, and host Claude Berube discuss the 1962 movie "Advise and Consent," based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1959 novel by the same name.
There were some minor audio glitches in this episode.
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