Sen. Mitch McConnell on Voting Rights | One to One | KET

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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2015 · News & Politics

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In this excerpt from an August episode of KET's "One to One," host Bill Goodman interviews Sen. Mitch McConnell about his relationship with Sen. John Sherman Cooper during the 1960s and about the importance of securing voting rights for all citizens. After interning for Sen. Cooper in 1964, McConnell returned for a visit in 1965 and was invited by Cooper to attend Pres. Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act. 

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