Lyndon Baines Johnson is now the president of the United States. How far will he go to keep it that way.

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.

Meanwhile, Barry Goldwater deals with a floundering campaign as a prime example of DC’s excess continues to fester.

All that and the birth of the modern television campaign ad in the season finale of Raise The Dead.

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