Episode 68: The History of the Presidential Cabinet
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. - En podkast av John Fea
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The members of Donald Trump's controversial cabinet are regular features of the 24-hour news cycle. He has fired members of his cabinet who challenge his thinking on a host of foreign and domestic issues. Just ask Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, and Jeff Sessions. But how did our first president, George Washington, imagine the role of the cabinet? In this episode, we think historically about this important part of the executive branch with historian Lindsay Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
