For research, Mr. Scanlon, co-writers Daniel Gerson and Robert L. Baird, and a team of artists visited Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.
With a caucus that includes unreconstructed liberals like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as well as unpredictable bulls like Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, old-school cajoling just isn't terribly effective.
Political, academic, and business leaders gathered under a monumental painting of Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster debating South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne in 1830.