Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is March 29th 2018.

I am Noah Rothman, John Pajoritz is out today with us as always is commentary magazine senior

editor a green wall.

I know and commentary magazine senior writer. So Roba Mari.

I know.

So within the last 24 hours, we were having a lot of pieces that were being

authored by journalists and commentators talking about how the this was a

quiet week in the Trump administration.

There wasn't a lot of news or wasn't a lot of churn out of the White House.

It was very untrump.

While all that quietness went out the window yesterday because late in the

afternoon, we got word apparently not by tweet, but the secretary of veterans of

affairs, David Schilken was removed from his post.

This is not something that anybody was taken by surprise by.

We had seen a lot of reports in the news about how Schilken was on the

outs with Donald Trump.

So it wasn't a shock.

They the nomination to replace him.

The president's physician who very famously gave him a a surprisingly clean bill

of health, a bill so clean that people thought it might have been doctored.

Even though that was kind of a wild conspiracy theory, the guy had been

Barack Obama's physician, etc.

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