My History Can Beat Up Your Politics - PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANTS AND AIDES "Separated By a Swinging Door"

PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANTS AND AIDES "Separated By a Swinging Door"

02/17/25 • 105 min

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From the man who answered T.R.'s phone and maybe saved his life, to the secret "Sphinx" around Woodrow Wilson, to Coolidge's surprise enforcer. We look at all sorts of Presidential assistants and aides, both official ones and non-official ones.

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D.C. REPRESENTATION: A Love Story

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This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over the years, and the reactions of Congress to them. Why Lincoln and Jefferson Davis found common ground on one issue about D.C. and neither got their wish. And about the rioting soldiers that may have spurred the whole idea of a federal city on a hill in the first place. Plus, about that guy who lived in a tree.

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