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Hello everyone. My name is Wesley Levesay from the History of the Second World War podcast.

Join me on a journey through the most destructive conflict in human history, a journey that will

take us not just through the famous campaigns and cataclysmic battles, but also to the lesser

well-known corners of the

war that touched millions all over the world, as we try and answer not just the questions of

what and where, but how and why. You can find History of the Second World War on all major

podcast platforms or at History of the Second World War.com.

Hey folks, get ready for a new season of blowback coming Monday, September 22nd.

This time around, we're covering the Cold War Showdown in Africa.

When apartheid South Africa invades the newly independent nation of Angola,

Revolutionary Cuba sends its own army to defend its African ally, while the United

States backs a warlord whose only goal is power. Subscribe now at blowback.combeck. Show and get the

entire season when it drops. Add free. Blowback.com. Shutting down the government is not something

that would have happened. In Lincoln's that would have happened in Lincoln's time,

in Warren Harding's time, or even Lyndon Johnson's time. Congress and President would fight,

but employees would stay and nothing would get padlocked.

I don't know. On November 23rd, 1981, 1981, federal government workers left their offices and spilled out into the streets of Washington, D.C.

It was the first true government shutdown. Not the first conflict between President House and Senate, but never before had Tempers been so hot. Well, okay, that's not true.

Temperes had been hot at different times. The nasty spats between Clay and Jackson, Lincoln and

Wade, Kennedy, and Harry Bird. But never before in history, was it possible to actually put on the padlocks of government? President Reagan

wanted more cuts than the House and Senate agreed to, 13 billion in cuts. He did not specify

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