role of everyone. and, anyway, he was hired. and i think he's a very well-known lawyer today. i just can't remember his name, but, anyway, to your, you know, making the story long for you. just john essentially -- john, mr. jenner and others picked the staff. they had -- they had a pretty good, 90% of the staff was their choice, and i think they picked some of the best people, and you'll later see, in the country. >> do you remember any of the republicans pushing for their -- >> pushing for staff? >> yes. >> oh, absolutely. oh no. everything was -- it was very -- it was very easy. this was very partisan, yes. very sense, yes, but there was a

korgality and respect between the two parties. the ranking member was congressman hutchison who was quite eloquent, and had the deep respect of chairman rodino, but hutchison was up in age and this obviously was very stressful for him. so the second ranking republican was a gentleman by the name of mcclory from illinois, i

a sfronk election came very important to the advisor. but their influential to in terms of cutting this intellectual thought into this. dynamic, the congressman from california, the fbi agent, very important in because he was a very liberal person, he was the congressman's gate, sort of door to the liberal wichk of the

committee at the party, but don became 3w5i78 very important. so there was a group that the congressman reached out to that became -- that were very influential coming to this decision. there's a lot of discussion, there's a lot of i think memos and they used to pack the district in newark. they would pack the big binders with all these memos and then he would read them over the weekend and all this discussion would take place with the various members. he couldn't do this without a consent to his fell lowe members.

it was pretty extraordinary today that they loued this inquiry to go on to long without their input, without their involvement. there was -- to get there, there was a lot of behind the scenes conversations that took place on a regular basis with the congress map, in the committee, it was con stand outreach about what various members thought. on these various issues. >> to read transcripts of this and otherdrelated -- this year cspan's local content vehicles are traveling the u.s. to look at american history. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend

on cspan 3. >> he was the first popular governor not only of kansas but of the nation. >> what led to the populous movement led to a rural versus urban environment. there was the west where you had the farmers taking the money, you had the bankers taking up the movement. it touched everyone, it was here at the wichita auditorium that loren lorenzo lewelling. >> his rhetoric was that of a war general, kind of leading some troops into battle. he talked about taking down the government that had been in bed

with the railroads and he also talked about cooperation with the state's other political party, the democrats and that's really what kind of won him over, or won the people here at the populous convention was the fact this