Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) was a U.S. House Representative (1939-1949), U.S. Senator (1950-1963), and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. In 1935 he married Nancy Piggott, a native of Scotland. During his years in the Senate, he served on the Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and sponsored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962. He lost favor among Southerners with his support of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision to desegregate schools and when he and Albert Gore, Sr., were the only southern senators to refuse to sign the Southern Manifesto, intending to block school integration, in 1956. In 1952, he lost to Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, but in 1956 he was Stevenson’s Vice Presidential running mate.

Powel Crosley, Jr. established a Cincinnati radio statio named WLW. He began broadcasting on WLW in 1922. Eventually the station had the ability to broadcast at 500,000 watts, making it one of the most powerful stations in the world. As such, the United States government used WLW to broadcast the Voice of America during World War Two.

"Personalities in your government" was broadcast on WLW. The program brought its listeners "the authentic background of prominent men and women who today are filling important positions in your national government."