Season 1

Covers the frantic lobbying through the first test vote on the Senate floor.

Spans the historic eight-day filibuster and subsequent passage by the Senate of a bill diametrically opposed to the President’s.

Depicts the Herculean effort by the President, Secretary Schlesinger, and congressional allies, to wrest a natural gas compromise and steer it through a formidable coalition of Left and Right, and finally into law.