Remembering Another Historic Upset
Season 2016 Episode 47 | 27m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
50 years before Donald Trump shocked the political world, Dan Button did it in Albany.
50 years before Donald Trump shocked the political world, Dan Button did it in Albany. We take a look at the journalist-turned-Republican candidate who scored an upset victory over the city's Democratic machine and was elected to Congress in 1966. His daughter Nancy, now a producer for CNN's 'State of the Union,' and Times Union writer and historian Paul Grondahl look back at the remarkable upset.
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Remembering Another Historic Upset
Season 2016 Episode 47 | 27m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
50 years before Donald Trump shocked the political world, Dan Button did it in Albany. We take a look at the journalist-turned-Republican candidate who scored an upset victory over the city's Democratic machine and was elected to Congress in 1966. His daughter Nancy, now a producer for CNN's 'State of the Union,' and Times Union writer and historian Paul Grondahl look back at the remarkable upset.
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