Profiles the lives of individuals involved in the debate over President Lyndon Johnson's vision of the Great Society.
Content Note
Building a Great Society -- Michael Harrington -- prophet b. Lyndon Johnson, mover and shaker -- Wilber Cohen, fulfilling and extending a dream -- Richard Goodwin, believer -- Walter Reuther, American social democrat f. Joseph Califano, point man -- Sargent Shriver, the travails of implementation -- Martin Luther King, Jr, extending the dream -- Challenging the Great Society -- Barry Goldwater, prophet of a new Right -- William F. Buckley, Jr., genial crusader -- Tom Hayden, young New Leftist -- Stokely Carmichael, young black radical -- Strom Thurmond, harbinger of realignment -- Edward Banfield, "what crisis?" -- Both For and Against -- Wilbur Mills, man of ways and means -- Everett Dirksen, man of the hour -- Richard Daley, "boss" in a changing world -- Edith Green, mainstream party regular -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, policy man.