Mark Updegrove Reflects on the Fight for  Marriage Equality
Channel: Phillip LeConte
Date: 2021-08-27

Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove discusses when four US presidents came to the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas to reflect on the origins and progress of the Civil Rights Act. In addition to the historic Civil Rights Summit (April 8–10, 2014),

Updegrove also discusses two other guests, Ted Olson & David Boies, and their battle for marriage equality. 

Mark K. Updegrove became director of the LBJ Presidential Library in October 2009. Updegrove has authored three books relating to the American presidency: Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency (2012), Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis (2009), and Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House (2006). 

Interviewed by Phillip LeConte.