CSPAN2 Konden July 6, 2024
To have of investigation of the making of an american religion. Guest he was an apostle back in the late 1800s, and in the early 19800s he was elected to the senate as a republican. Elected to the senate, a lot of people had a problem with that because not only was he mormon, which was a big problem to the rest of the country, but he was an apostle, so one of the hire or around around key centers. One of the things people were worried about was the church basicallyec ran politics. The church ran the economy in, society in utah. So reid smoot, people were saying, well, what are you doing, bring...