#1633 The History of Presidential Transitions

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Clay and frequent guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky discuss how an incoming president prepares to govern the United States. In what ways does the outgoing administration advise and guide the one coming in, particularly when the new president wants to make a sharp break with his predecessor’s policies and style? We examine the first four presidencies: Washington, the only unanimous president, who had been preparing for this role his whole life; John Adams, who made the mistake of keeping Washington’s cabinet in place, not knowing until too late that those ministers were betraying him at every turn; Jefferson, whose preparation in 1800 was hamstrung by the constitutional crisis in which the House of Representatives took 36 ballots to certify his election; and the ways in which Jefferson tried to ease the path of his handpicked successor James Madison in 1808.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:02.2	This is my introduction to today's podcast edition of listening to America.
0:06.4	Dr. Lindsay Trevinsky.
0:07.6	I wanted to just say a little bit about this.
0:09.6	So on the day or two before the election, we recorded a podcast, but we did not air it.
0:16.1	The election was so decisive, and we both thought of, I was more pessimistic than she was, but we both
0:23.8	thought probably that Kamala Harris would win. I wasn't particularly surprised when Donald Trump
0:30.3	won. I was a little surprised that he won the popular vote. I was a little surprised that he
0:34.5	won all of the battleground states.
0:40.0	So we decided not to air that program.
0:41.3	We will put it on.
0:43.9	We're rebuilding the 1776 Cup.
0:46.5	We're going to call it by a different name, but there's going to be extra content.
0:47.9	There's going to be premium content.
0:56.3	There will be quarterly Zoom meetings with Lindsay and members of whatever the 1776 Club is named.
0:59.0	So this kind of content will be going on this site.
1:02.1	And we'll also have, you know, what Rush Limbaugh called a ditto cam.
1:06.7	So at times you'll get to see the sausage being made with Lindsay at one end of the country and I'll be at the other end and so on and so forth.
1:09.1	So I hope you'll want to sign up for that.
1:10.9	This is a way to fund the program.
1:12.1	It won't be terribly expensive, but I want you to do that.
1:15.9	So this program, today's program with Lindsay is the next one.
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