#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson and guest host David Horton discuss the history of executive orders. Even though they are not authorized by the U.S. Constitution, every president except William Henry Harrison has issued at least one. David and Clay review the most important executive orders in American history: the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863; the Japanese internment camps brought on by FDR in 1942. Truman integrated the U.S. military and JFK created the Peace Corps using executive orders. Clay argues that they should not be used by the president in lieu of letting Congress hammer out public policy, particularly when tax dollars are at stake. And now, in this disruptive age, each president rescinds some of the executive orders of his predecessor, and the process repeats itself at the next election.

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0:00.0	Good day citizens and welcome to another edition of
0:07.4	listening to America with Clay Jenkinson. I'm David Horton I have the honor of
0:12.3	serving as your host for this edition of
0:15.8	listening to America and I am thrilled to be here with noted humanity scholar
0:21.0	and all around amazing individual, Clay Jenkins.
0:24.7	How are you, my friend?
0:25.9	It's great to see you.
0:26.9	We're talking by Zoom technology, or Riverside rather.
0:30.7	And it, you know, it really has changed the world. I didn't know about Zoom until about six years ago and
0:36.7	now I can't live a day without it.
0:38.6	Absolutely and you know the amazing thing about it is it makes things possible that would have taken a satellite or a
0:46.6	giant production truck or something along that line just a few years ago it's kind of
0:50.7	remarkable we wouldn't have been able to do it at all. It would just be too cumbersome. You know, I used to be called by a network and they'd say, can you get to a studio? This changes everything you can do it in your bathroom if you like.
1:03.7	You can do it from a hotel room or from the Taj Mahal for that matter.
1:07.9	As long as you have a good internet connection.
1:09.8	Which we almost never do, but we make it work.
1:11.7	We make it work one way or the other. Well this week my friend we are in a
1:16.0	presidential election year and it looks like we are going to have a rematch of the 20-20 election but not so much about this year, I think one of the interesting
1:25.9	things to talk about as we go through the next several months through primaries and election season is presidential power.
1:34.8	And what presidential power actually is and what it isn't, you know,
1:39.2	so much of our government is based on us having separation of powers and putting much of the power
1:47.8	with the Congress, with the legislature.
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