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"REFILL" White House Rivalries and CDC Reform with Dr. Tevi Troy
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An episode pulled from the archives, Joe Grogan and Eric Ueland welcome Dr. Tevi Troy, former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, presidential historian, and best selling author of Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump. First aired in February 2023 at the midpoint of the Biden administration, this conversation diagnoses how White House infighting actually works, why the Biden team leaked so much less than its predecessors, and what discipline does and does not buy a president. From there the conversation turns to the machinery of the State of the Union, why the speech always collapses into a laundry list, and how Ronald Reagan invented the pageantry that…