A ’90s-Style Government Shutdown (Part 2) | The Clinton Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels to November 7, 1995, when a long and uncomfortable plane ride helped fire up Speaker Gingrich to deliver a dramatic set of budget demands that President Bill Clinton did not expect.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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| 0:00.0 | Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast |
| 0:05.0 | sometimes it's better when you get weird especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink |
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| 0:15.3 | it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper, |
| 0:18.8 | but with zero sugar and zero calories. |
| 0:21.6 | It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on. Weird, but in a |
| 0:25.3 | surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello and welcome to Whistlesop a podcast of the presidency. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:40.0 | This is volume two of the Gingrich and Clinton set to the struggle to chart the direction and purpose of government in an age of American pause. |
| 0:50.0 | In this period we've chosen for our time together, the Cold War is just over, and in the |
| 0:55.6 | flicker of relative peace before the age of terrorism is to start, America and its elected |
| 1:01.2 | representatives are narrowing their eyes on the question of the country's fiscal and economic health. |
| 1:08.0 | Two men were wrestling over a chicken bone of opportunity to use the budget deficits accumulated over the years |
| 1:15.4 | and the political appetite for a creative government response to them as an opportunity |
| 1:20.9 | to reshape the nature of the American system. |
| 1:24.0 | On the one side, a big gray-haired baby boomer |
| 1:27.4 | tinker with historic ambition raised by a strong mother |
| 1:30.4 | and abandoned by an erratic father whose words and ideas tumbled after each other like |
| 1:34.3 | jerseys in a dryer. On the other side, the same thing. Mirror images with their ideology |
| 1:41.9 | and their hair parted on opposite sides, fighting to |
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