Presidential historian and head of the George Washington Presidential Library Lindsay Chervinsky joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the American Presidency. How did the United States end up with only two dominant political parties? Can Donald Trump run for President again? What are the actual duties of a Vice President? Why is election season so long in America? And how many presidents have ever been arrested? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on President Support.
0:00 President Support
0:15 Can Trump run again?
0:38 Biden pardoning his own son
1:12 Was it always this bad?
1:59 These are our options?
2:50 State of the Union
4:09 Just a flesh wound
4:46 Teddy Bears
5:29 Has the peaceful transition of power ever been in more doubt?
6:25 Well, that’s classified.
6:37 Day in the life
7:31 Meaningless S
7:40 The Supreme Court
8:23 Why are American elections so long?
8:57 Roosevelt had polio
10:07 George Washington’s take on political parties
10:48 Disease in the days of Washington
11:29 What if the Vice President was from the opposite party?
12:10 Has any US president ever been fluent in a second language?
12:50 The greatest speech in the history of the United States
13:31 The most influential First Lady
14:04 Early presidents and slavery
14:36 RIP
14:52 What is it that you do here?
15:43 Grant on the Fifty
16:21 Tariffs
17:44 22 and 24
18:19 That cherry tree story
19:08 Pre-White House
20:04 Hoover and The Great Depression
20:39 Edith Wilson
21:32 Which presidents have been impeached?
21:59 Back and forth and back and forth
22:26 Cheers
22:40 Presidential security
23:26 The job ages you
23:47 How has the presidency changed?
24:25 Presidents can be short kings
24:50 How many presidents have killed somebody?
25:17 Presidents who have been arrested
25:39 Commander in Drip
25:55 Presidential hobbies
26:05 What does the job pay?
26:34 Good one, sir
27:03 Truman and the bomb
27:34 What does Commander In Chief mean?
28:03 Polk’s war with Mexico
28:48 Best president on foreign policy
29:29 Burn my letters would you, Martha?
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Eric Bugash
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Expert: Lindsay Chervinsky
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Rob Klein
Sound Mixer: Todd Burger
Production Assistant: Freyja Golbach; Kiran Kestenbaum
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Special Thanks: George Washington’s Mount Vernon
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While giving the “most stylish” award to JFK is not a bad choice, I’d argue that Truman likely is the winner. Neither Regan or Obama should be anywhere on that list. For the GOP, I’d argue that Geo. W. Bush might be the best choice.
I’d argue that FDR, JFK , Nixon and Regan were all far more effective at foreign relations than Geo. H.W. Bush.
You are a beautiful classy woman
Gettysburg Address should be the best speech in US history 13:03
Please stop adding the fake typing noises
Zionists
u will never be USA president until u are a puppet
Like Trump follows the constitution. As if.
Property lines to front lines🤷♂️
Theodore Roosevelt also went on to insult the man who shot him in the speech.
While polio was the official diagnosis, many modern experts believe {FDR} Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) likely had Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS.
What tariffs do is make the price more comparable to the cost of making it in the US. Making it less attractive to making it over seas. Thus spurring investment in the US economy. This creates more jobs and exports while bringing in more tax dollars.
Trump will be lucky to live until 2028.
15:28 border czar
12:09 I think Obama can speak Hawaiian and Indonesian. Aloha kakahiaka
9:57 I love that the press had this sort of respect and understanding in regards to the president having polio. I doubt this would ever happen now
19:10 where presidents lived before White House
Quite literally unarmed protesters could never have overthrown the government, It was a political statment that was engineered to get out of hand by the opposing party. And just bearly did… What a sad and partisan understanding of history. And it just gets more partisan form there.
George HW won desert storm
The explanation for why we have a two-party system was not answered.
The answer is, as suffrage was expanded, the elite realized there needed to be a way to make sure only the interests of elites were served.
Political parties act as a “electoral college” at every level of government and for all elected positions.
Political parties won’t allow SCOTUS to rule against political parties.
Political parties control how elections are structured and how other parties can form and function.