This documentary compares and contrasts politics and political personalities in the United States and the United Kingdom, both democracies but with forms of government with significant differences. The program examines modern politicians in the light of the road to political power, the adequacies of the facilities they are given with which to govern once they are in power, and the way time has dealt with the democratic systems of government. Interviewees are: Dr. Mark Abrams, a research and public relations specialist who was campaign adviser to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson; John Brademas, a Democrat from South Bend, Indiana, who has been the U.S. Representative from the Third Congressional District of Indiana since November 1958; Christopher Chataway, a former Member of Parliament who lost his seat in the 1966 Labour Party victory; Ednyfed Hydson Davies, who was elected to Parliament from the constituency of Conway in Wales by that same election; the Right Honourable Edward Heath, M.B.E., Wilson's chief opponent, who became Leader of the Opposition in July 1965; Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the former Attorney General of the U.S. and Democratic Senator from New York since November 1964; Dr. David Kerr, Labour Member of Parliament for a London constituency and a practising General Practitioner who has been in politics since 1959; Lord Mancroft, K.B.E. and M.B.E., a former Parliament Under-Secretary and Secretary; Lawrence F. O'Brien, Postmaster General of the U.S., who as appointed to that office in September 1965; Congressman Donald Rumsfeld (Republican), who has been the U.S. Representative from the Thirteenth Congressional District of Illinois since November 1962; and the Right Honourable Harold Wilson, O.B.E., who became Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury in Great Britain in October 1964. <1h>~The following people are interviewed: Dr. Mark Abrams, a research and public relations specialist, who was campaign advisor to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson; John Brademas, a Democrat from South Bend, Indiana, the U.S. Representative from the Third Congressional District of Indiana since November 1958; Christopher Chataway, a former British Member of Parliament who lost his seat in the 1966 Labour victory; Ednyfed Hudson Davies, elected to the British Parliament in 1966 from the constituency of Conway in Wales; the Right Honourable Edward Heath, Leader of the Opposition since July 1965; and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the former Attorney General of the U.S. and, since November 1964, the Democratic Senator from New York State. <1h>
