This play is set on the eve of the 1960 presidential race as Jimmy Higgins is being interviewed by a college student about his life. Higgins recounts his days as a newspaper boy in Sandusky, Ohio, during the first World War, his meeting with Eugene Debs and other radicals opposed to American participation in the war, his experiences in the LaFollette campaign for president in 1924, and his experiences a labor reporter covering the union organizing drives of tenant farmers and auto workers in the 1930s.