Quite By Accident: A Life in Washington
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In this first episode of Quite By Accident, 25-year-old Steve Hess, fresh out of U.S. Army service in Germany, lands a job in Eisenhower’s White House. Host Katie Dunn Tenpas finds out how that happened and gets a ground-level tour of the White House in the late 1950s.
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Episode 6: On coming to Brookings, and reflections on today’s politics
Episode 5: Moynihan, Nixon, and Watergate
Episode 4: How Steve Hess met Richard Nixon
Episode 3: State dinners, White House staff, and farewell to Eisenhower
Episode 2: Writing speeches for President Eisenhower
Introducing Quite By Accident, a podcast about a life in Washington, DC
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