Episode 3: President Rambo | The Kingmakers
Master Plan
The Lever & David Sirota
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | The lever. |
| 0:33.6 | That's what I'm going to say, what it's all about. |
| 0:36.6 | Why don't I tell you what, |
| 0:39.2 | what is the situation? And then I'll take your questions. It was late November 1986. |
| 0:44.8 | Ronald Reagan's Attorney General, Ed Meese, had hastily called an impromptu press conference at the |
| 0:50.2 | White House to address a political emergency. On Friday afternoon, or Friday at noon, the president asked me to look into and bring together the facts concerning... |
| 1:01.4 | These should have been high times for the Reagan administration. |
| 1:04.3 | After spending his first term clawing power back from Congress, the Gipper was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, and he was now entering |
| 1:13.2 | the final half of his second term. |
| 1:16.0 | But just before Ed Meese's emergency press conference about an unfolding scandal, Reagan |
| 1:21.3 | and his revolutionaries had suffered a brutal political setback. |
| 1:25.1 | President Reagan returned to the White House tonight. |
| 1:27.1 | It was not a very |
| 1:28.0 | happy homecoming for him because he now faces a Democratic majority in the United States Senate. |
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