Episodi

  • White House Secrets - How the West Wing Swallowed the Government

    White House Secrets - How the West Wing Swallowed the Government
    Apr 20 2026
    Host Alex Calder explores how the presidential staff grew from two clerks to hundreds managing a shadow government. From FDR's 1939 Executive Office creation to Nixon's counter-bureaucracy, this episode reveals how the West Wing accumulated unprecedented power, transforming American governance behind the same white columns.

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    35 min
  • White House Secrets - The Bunker Beneath the Lawn

    White House Secrets - The Bunker Beneath the Lawn
    Apr 20 2026
    Host Alex Calder explores secret bunkers, tunnels, and crisis rooms beneath the White House, from JFK's Situation Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis to modern excavations. Discover how underground expansion transformed the presidency and what it means when America's leader governs from a fortress beneath the lawn.

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    31 min
  • White House Secrets - The Shadow President and the Locked Bedroom

    White House Secrets - The Shadow President and the Locked Bedroom
    Apr 20 2026
    Host Alex Calder examines how Edith Wilson controlled access to President Woodrow Wilson after his 1919 stroke, gatekeeping the executive branch from a White House bedroom. This episode explores the constitutional crisis, architectural secrecy, and institutional failures that enabled one woman to shield a paralyzed president while the Treaty of Versailles collapsed.

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    30 min