Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, let's talk about the first days of a new administration, how new presidents have

spent their time in the wake of their inauguration. Obviously, we see that this time around Donald Trump is

taking on an everything, everywhere all at once type approach, issuing executive orders around

basically all of his main campaign promises and priorities. We will see how many of those stand up

to any legal opposition or what legal opposition will look like in the coming days and weeks and

months. But throughout

history, other presidents have taken maybe a more measured approach and they have reflected their

different priorities. So here to discuss, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly

Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. Hello, Jody. Hey there. A little housekeeping,

actually, before we get going, listeners, I just want to say that we've

been talking internally on the show a fair amount about how to best do the marriage of history

and political analysis that we were kind of doing a fair amount last year during the election.

And I think we have gotten great feedback on the moments when

we've kind of really explicitly talked about what's going on in the world today and tried to put it

in historical context. And so our plan is to do more episodes a little bit like the one we're doing

today, where we're going to live in this moment, the first moments of the Trump presidency

and then also put it in historical context. But, you know,

we are going to try and cover this next stretch, which feels very historical in many ways

in the way that we do. So that's just to frame today and to frame kind of our ongoing project.

And listeners, I will say, you know, thanks for all the feedback on these kinds of episodes.

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