1 Byrd on Rome

Senator Robert Byrd - 1 Byrd on Rome - The Honorable Robert C. Byrd, United States Senator from West Virginia, speaks on "The Senate of the Roman Republic," a series of 14 lectures on the history of Roman Republic and the relevance of history to our modern times. The Senator winds up for 26 minutes with parables about our modern times, then does a deep dive into the history of Rome, starting in this lecture with the birth of the Senate and continuing on in 14 lectures through the fall of the republic. This video was purchased from C-SPAN, which provided footage of the floor of the Senate as a public service.