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The Democratic Party in the 1960s
Biden in 1972 is coming into this strange party that is already changing, isn't it? So when Biden comes in in 72, the civil rights act has been passed by Johnson. But those representatives of the white segregationist south are still there. And Biden gets into trouble years later as we'll discuss saying how he was able to talk to both sides of the Democratic Party and strike deals. That's always been a part of his self image, isn'tIt? That person who can work within the system, even with people who he disagrees with. Yeah.