Is Biden The Next FDR? or LBJ?

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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How transformative are President Biden's economic and infrastructure proposals? Depends on what gets passed. The comparisons to FDR and LBJ miss the vastly different political landscapes those presidents faced. Sam talks with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about how this moment compares to those past presidents' efforts at once in a generation legislation. You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:02.7	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:04.2	This episode, the presidency.
0:07.4	So every time a new president takes office,
0:09.7	they make all kinds of symbolic gestures
0:12.2	to set the tone of their White House.
0:14.9	And one of the most obvious of those symbolic gestures
0:17.9	is the White House guest list.
0:19.6	So Sarah Palin, Ted Nugin, and Kid Rock,
0:23.3	all walk into the White House.
0:25.7	Oh wow, would you like it that?
0:27.6	It's not a joke.
0:28.8	When Donald Trump took office a few years ago,
0:31.0	some of his first official guests were, well, you heard it,
0:34.6	celebrities and politicians who had become reality TV stars.
0:39.9	Flash forward about four years, and Joe Biden
0:42.5	has invited a very different group of people
0:45.3	into the White House.
0:46.4	It could have been an intimidating room for any politician.
0:49.7	Doris Kernsgoodwin was there, Michael Beschloss, Professor
0:53.1	Eddie Glod, Jr.
0:54.4	In the early days of the Biden administration,
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