The US Cabinet
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Lindsay Chervinsky joined me on the podcast to discuss the history of the US Cabinet. We also discussed the electoral college system and the Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody! Welcome to Dance Know's History Hit. Got some more US |
| 0:04.0 | electoral history on the podcast this time. It seems to be in the air at the moment, |
| 0:08.0 | I'm recording this on the Friday afternoon UK time. It looks like |
| 0:11.7 | Pennsylvania has just flipped for. Biden people are calling on Trump and the |
| 0:16.9 | Republicans to concede. That's going to be an ongoing adventure. |
| 0:20.4 | And so this episode of the podcast hopefully will be useful to those looking ahead now. |
| 0:24.2 | This is Dr. Lindsay Chavinsky, a historian of early America, the presidency in the |
| 0:28.8 | government. She's a particular expert in the cabinet, the cabinet system, where it |
| 0:31.8 | emerged from how it would be used by subsequent presidents. We assumed that Joe Biden would |
| 0:37.2 | go on to be the next president. We may be wrong. Let's see. Let's see what happens. |
| 0:40.8 | So forgive us if this podcast has aged badly. If you're interested in lots of other podcasts |
| 0:47.9 | about US history, you can listen to all these podcasts without the ads. |
| 0:51.6 | You head over to history.it.tv used to code pod1.pod1 and you get a month free in your second |
| 0:55.7 | month, but it's one pound, one euro or one dollar. In the meantime, everyone, enjoy the excellent |
| 1:02.5 | Dr. Lindsay Chavinsky. |
| 1:09.7 | Lindsay, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh, it's my pleasure. It's a great distraction from checking the results constantly online. |
| 1:18.4 | We have both been doing all that. We're both learning a lot about the counties of Pennsylvania, |
| 1:22.8 | Georgia. You are such an expert. Let's assume that Biden is the narrowfair. Let's assume he wins. |
| 1:28.5 | It looks perhaps, although it's all right up in the air, it looks like Mitch McConnell may still |
| 1:32.8 | have a narrow majority in the Senate. When it comes to building a cabinet, let's go back to the |
| 1:37.7 | founding father. Let's go back to Georgia, Washington. In Britain in the 18th century, it was axiomatic, |
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