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Master Plan

Episode 2: Mandate for Power | The Kingmakers

Master Plan

The Lever & David Sirota

History, News, Politics

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How did Project 2025 take control of the White House? It all began decades ago, when a beer-baron-backed think tank handed President Ronald Reagan an 1,100-page instruction manual for expanding presidential power. The next episode is available now for premium subscribers. Click here. TRANSCRIPT & BONUS MATERIALS: Click here to read a transcript and to explore bonus historical documents related to the episode. Get Master Plan episodes early and ad-free by becoming a paid subscriber. Enjoy bonus episodes, exclusive content, and support this show. Visit levernews.com/upgrade . To leave a tip for The Lever, click here. It helps us do this kind of independent journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now, are all the traitors present?

0:44.4

Let's get started, shall we?

0:46.4

From rags to riches.

0:47.7

I'm so sick of this.

0:48.9

Working like a dog and being treated worse.

0:51.1

Yorkshire to New York.

0:52.6

Or climbers, you and me.

0:56.2

A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4. Stream now.

1:03.8

The Lover. In 1977, British journalist David Frost asked a question that almost everyone wanted to know the answer to.

1:14.6

Why didn't you burn the tapes?

1:16.6

The tapes he's referring to are the Watergate tapes, and Frost was interviewing disgraced former president Richard Nixon.

1:23.6

I did not only consider, but I even suggested that Mr. Halliman go through the tapes

1:31.4

and make the search that would be necessary to retain all those that had historical value

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