The Cabinet, George Washington's Creation, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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George Washington did not get a Cabinet as President. He created it. His precedents forged the institution and the President's relationship to the Executive Departments. Washington didn't fire a cabinet member, but he set the precedents in this area and in others. We are joined by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a historian with the white house historian Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution has been published by Harvard University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	The cabinet relationships with the president are very malleable and they're very flexible which
0:39.5	means that they change with each administration.
0:42.2	The president can really manage and sort of, you know,
0:44.7	have a strong grasp on the cabinet or can really be managed by the cabinet. Oh, When Washington met Cornwallis after his surrender at Yorktown, the general had a compliment for his opponent.
1:19.0	Your victory here, he said to Washington is impressive, but your reputation will really come from what
1:26.6	you did on the Delaware.
1:29.0	He was referring of course to the Battle of Trenton, day after Christmas in 1776 in which saved a war, saved a cause, saved an army.
1:39.2	The situation, December 1776, was dire, having attempted a defense of New York and be beaten back
1:46.0	fleeing across New Jersey over to the Pennsylvania side then taking advantage of Cornwallis's refusal to pounce on him, he attacked a group of
1:57.8	Hessions in a battle that we well know, the Battle of Trenton.
2:02.3	Took prisoners.
2:03.0	That's pretty well known in history.
2:05.0	What's less known is that once Trenton was taken,
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