FDR's Purge | The Oval Office
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 24, 1938, to a fireside chat with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he prepared to attempt to purge the congressional leadership in order to push forward the executive office’s agenda.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
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| 0:20.0 | Bluetooth and internet connection required. |
| 0:22.0 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both |
| 0:23.8 | your phone and Chromebook. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether it's an under-the-radar genre or a proper out-there podcast, sometimes it's better when you get weird, especially when it comes to |
| 0:35.4 | switching up your soft drink, introducing new Dr Pepper Zero. With the same blend of |
| 0:40.6 | 23 unique flavors, it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper, but with |
| 0:46.2 | zero sugar and zero calories. It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on. Weird. |
| 0:52.0 | But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with |
| 0:54.8 | Dr Pepper Zero. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of the presidency. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm John Dickerson of Phase the Nation. |
| 1:05.0 | Recently in American politics two members of the Republican Party have announced |
| 1:10.0 | that they will not run for re-election Jeff Flake of Arizona and Senator Bob |
| 1:13.7 | Corker of Tennessee. They're both senators actually. Flake said he couldn't |
| 1:17.8 | abide by a party which supported Donald Trump. Corker of Tennessee said he |
| 1:21.9 | didn't want to be thinking about getting reelected |
| 1:24.0 | when there was so much work he should do. His re-election would have been ugly and |
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