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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests including Andi Osho and Tina C for more bitingly satirical comedy. Produced by Victoria Lloyd...

Hear historian Raymond Arsenault, critic-at-large John Powers, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. In Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Arsenault recounts how an integrated group of self-proclaimed freedom riders challenged segregation by riding together on buses through the deep South.