MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show February 20, 2015
John tower was the first republican elected to be a u. S. Senator from texas since the reconstruction era after the civil war. John tower served as a republican in the senate for more than 20 years. He ended up making history after his time in the senate, when he became the only nominee for secretary of defense who has ever been rejected by the United States senate. George h. W. Bush, poppy bush, nominated john tower to be defense secretary in january 1989, and the senate, remarkably, said, no. His nomination was basically doomed by multiple reports of alleged inappropriate behavior by him tow...