Guest Episode: Master Plan: The Kingmakers

We are sharing a special episode from Master Plan , the award-winning investigative series from our friends at The Lever. Its new season, The Kingmakers , traces the decades-long effort to manufacture an all-powerful presidency. Host David Sirota and his team of journalists investigate the rise of a once-fringe legal idea that has hijacked the machinery of American government. In this episode, you’ll go back more than 50 years, to a moment when Americans feared the rise of an “imperial presidency.” Richard Nixon’s attempts to seize the power of the purse and secretly expand the Vietnam War sparked a constitutional crisis, and a backlash, and set a template for the imperial presidency. To hear the rest of season two, follow Master Plan on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Guest Episode: Master Plan: The Kingmakers is an episode from Scene on Radio by Scene on Radio.

This episode is 37:56 long.

This episode was published on May 6, 2026.

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