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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Overreaction and the Siege of Troy

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this day 2 of the daily COMMENTARY podcast, we are joined by White House historian Tevi Troy, whose book Fight House you should all read, to talk about how White Houses deal with crises, the possibility that we are all overreacting to the virus, and a little bit on the Democratic primary. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0

Welcome to day two of the commentary daily podcast.

0:28.8

I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year of monthly of

0:33.1

intellectual analysis, political property and cultural criticism from a conservative

0:37.5

perspective. We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com. We'll give you two

0:41.3

free reads. We ask you to subscribe now more than ever.

0:44.7

1995 for a digital subscription and 2995 for an all-access subscription, including our beautiful

0:50.8

monthly magazine in your mailbox. 11 times a year with me as always, senior editor,

0:57.1

a greenwald high-aib. Hi John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman, high-knowa.

1:02.2

Hi John. In Washington, senior writer, Christine Rosen, high-Christine.

1:07.2

Hi John. And today's guest, our friend in Silver Spring, Maryland,

1:13.1

Tevi Troy White House historian and general health care, Penn Gendram.

1:19.8

Tevi's new book called Fight House is out from a regulatory. You should order it. However,

1:26.1

you want to read it or both a hardcover and a Kindle version so that you can make sure that you

1:32.8

savor every page. He's also written other books like, Shall we Wake the President about

1:37.6

how White House is deal with disasters? So we thought Tevi would have a particular and was

1:43.4

Deputy Secretaries, that right, of Health and Human Services? That's correct.

1:47.6

That's correct. That's correct.

1:49.4

So he is the man of the hour. So Tevi, we read this morning, a Vicki Ward and Vanity Fair.

1:56.5

My old colleague says that the president is now furious with Jared Kushner, who, you know,

2:04.6

three minutes ago he put in charge of the coronavirus response at the White House.

2:11.4

This may be true. It may not be true who the hell knows. But we do have here a textbook case

2:17.2

of a White House in crisis mode. And we won't really necessarily have to discuss how they're doing,

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