On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, conspiracy theories, and urban

legends, examine the forces that shape our culture, and tell the stories that create the

realities we share, and sometimes the realities we don't.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American History.

New reports from Mrs. Reagan for Alliance on a Mythology are ways new questions about

natural security.

It is not to measure all the things, my thoughts, that.

He is not guided by the stars nor do we intend to have stargazers in the administration.

Is he the stargator?

Well, Ronnie's still here.

Now don't worry, my dear astrological believers, and I know there are a lot of you.

I come in peace. I don't come to ruin our shared folk magic, because I believe the most

boring thing I could do with this topic would be to debunk astrology.

And as a double Leo with a Scorpio moon, let me tell you, the thought of being boring is

just unbearable.

Instead of looking at astrology as we think of it currently, a map of various personalities

based on time and place of birth, I want to tell you a secret history about the underground

relationship between American politicians and the stargazing soothsayers who claimed

to be able to tell the future.

Now, we've relied on mixed accounts from memoirs and interviews of former chiefs of staff,

guest ladies, advisors, presidents, and astrologers themselves.

I've done my best to balance the cosmic scales of truth here, but it's up to you to determine

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