Clay Jenkinson and guest host David Horton discuss the history of executive orders. Even though they are not authorized by the U.S. Constitution, every president except William Henry Harrison has issued at least one. David and Clay review the most important executive orders in American history: the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863; the Japanese internment camps brought on by FDR in 1942. Truman integrated the U.S. military and JFK created the Peace Corps using executive orders. Clay argues that they should not be used by the president in lieu of letting Congress hammer out public policy, particularly when tax dollars are at stake. And now, in this disruptive age, each president rescinds some of the executive orders of his predecessor, and the process repeats itself at the next election.
#1601 John Steinbeck from Somewhere in Maine
#1600 A Conversation with Richard Rhodes
#1599 Underway! Tracing Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley” Journey
#1598 A Conversation with Political Cartoonist Phil Hands
#1597 Arbor Day and the Seeds of Liberty
#1596 Ten Things on Nullification
#1595 The Solar Eclipse of 2024
#1594 Live from Oklahoma
#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections
#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley
#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution
#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence
#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions
#1588 Presidential Norms
#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith
#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke
#1584 The Red Barber Program
#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens
#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck
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