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Jan 2023
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BEST OF THE GIST: Speaker Of The House E...

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In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we take a look at the job of Speaker of the House. On Monday, Mike opened the show, after being on vacay for a couple weeks, talking about Kevin McCarthy's elegant, seamless rise to the speakership, so we're listening to that first. Then we're digging back into The Gist archives to listen to Mike's 2015 interview with author Harlow Giles Unger who tells us about the great compromiser of America's formative years, former Speaker of the House Henry Clay. A contrast in courage, if you will.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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