How do presidential transitions happen?

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, we did an episode on Presidential Transitions. Now that we have had an election, we decided to revisit it. There are nearly 4,000 positions that a president appoints after their inauguration. How do they do it? How long does it take? And why has Donald Trump repeatedly refused to sign the "memoranda of understanding" regarding the transition from the U.S. General Services Administration? Our guest is Max Stier, President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, which runs the Center for Presidential Transition. Our show started as an explainer of governmental systems in a transition such as the one we're in now. Send us an email at [email protected] if you want us to explain any facet of how our democracy works. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Nick here.
0:05.0	It's like 522 on November 7th.
0:09.4	I'm recording this as I'm walking around.
0:12.2	I forgot to account for daylight savings time.
0:15.3	It's so dark.
0:17.0	And I'm wearing a black hoodie, so...
0:19.0	Gotta be careful.
0:29.4	I'm sure a lot of you out there know the story of how civics 101 started.
0:31.8	If you don't, I'll just tell you real quick.
0:49.4	Shortly after Trump was elected as president the first time, the CPU, which is the rather unfund initialism for the people to make podcasts at NHPR, we're like sitting around and talking about something that was happening involving the Secretary of State.
0:53.3	And then somebody bravely said, what does the Secretary of State do again?
0:55.6	And the room... I'll wait for this truck to go by.
0:59.2	Ah, that's a big truck.
1:01.2	And the room was silent.
1:03.5	Somebody was like, do any of you know what the Secretary of State does?
1:08.9	And then Logan Shannon.
1:11.2	Logan Shannon. Thank you for Logan Shannon. Logan Shannon.
1:13.1	Thank you for my job.
1:15.6	A producer at NHPR,
1:17.2	Logan Shannon, wrote down
1:18.8	on a post-it note,
1:21.3	Schoolhouse Rock for adults, question mark?
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