Why Buy the Cow?
Most of us will never meet a president. But your House Rep or Senator? They're supposed to speak for you.
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Show Notes
Since the beginning of the American experiment, presidents have tussled with Congress over how to handle foreign threats. That creative conflict is supposed to be the democratic ideal. But there were also moments when lawmakers realized it was easier to just… not do the job. In the best of times, Congress oversaw the president and pushed back on missteps — or prevented those missteps in the first place. In the worst of times, it checked out. Then, the dawn of the nuclear age blew up that precarious balance.
GUESTS: Kevin Butterfield, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon; Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute; Laura Ellyn Smith, University of Oxford; Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin
ADDITIONAL READING:
The Presidency Is Too Big to Succeed, Jeremi Suri, The Atlantic.
The Runaway Presidency, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Atlantic.
Adults in a Room IV, Inkstick Media.