Episode 3: Lame Ducks

How do we usher out “lame duck” presidents and bring on the victors? Often with stumbles and mistakes. The interval between lame duck Herbert Hoover and president-elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 was chaotic as Hoover biographer Charles Rappleye will explain in this episode. We’ll also talk to Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution who was there when Dwight Eisenhower turned over the reins to John Kennedy and check in on a new non-partisan effort to make our presidential transitions work better.

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Episode 3: Lame Ducks is an episode from Many Things Considered by Marc Johnson.

This episode is 36:51 long.

This episode was published on Nov 9, 2016.

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