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Executive Decision
by Vic Bondi
Executive Decision reviews the most significant presidential decisions in American history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making.
Episodes
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Six: The Last Best Hope on Earth
In this final part of our six part episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, we review exactly how Lincoln made his decision--one that was forced upon him by circumstance, and the unwavering insistance of millions of Americans that slavery be abolished, forever. Audio Clips:...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Five: The Emancipation Decision
On July 8, 1862, Abraham Lincoln journeyed to Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to confer with US General George McCellan on the conduct of the war against the southern insurrection. During the meeting, McCellan delivered Lincoln a memorandum that instructed him to abandon any effort to liberate the...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Four: The War to Expand Slavery
In part four of our episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation we review the causes of the Civil War, and the momentous events of the 1850s, especially the Fugutive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision, which rallied northern opinion against the expansion of slavery, and the...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Three: Slavery and Human Rights
American slavery may have been the most successful totalitarian system in history, lasting ten generations, far longer than comparable 20th century totalitarian regimes. In some ways, slavery's success as an economic and socio-political system was that it was just brutal enough to generate...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, Part Two: Democracy, Perfectionism and Degradation
In the antebellum South, democracy was racialized; as the vote was extened to every white man, it was granted in return for the political support of forced labor slavery. In part two of our six part episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, we review this process, and the…
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, Part One: Slavery and Capitalism
In part one of our six-part episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, we look at the evolution of historical thinking about the Civil War, slavery, and the emancipation proclamation. We discover why the moral objections to slavery held by ordinary people has become the chief...
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FDR and the Decision to Intern the Japanese, Part Three
In 1941, Government agents seized Ewan Yoshida's father. He was never seen again. In this final part of our three part episode on FDR and the decision to intern the Japanese in WWII, we review the consequences of the internment decision for the people sent to the camps, and why Roosevelt made the...
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FDR and the Decision to Intern the Japanese, Part Two
What happens when a strong person makes a weak decision and a weak person makes a strong one? In part two of our episode on FDR and the internment of the Japanese in WWII, we look at the anti-Japanese hysteria that seized the West Coast in the wake of Pearl Harbor and the bureaucratic infighting...
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FDR and the Decision to Intern the Japanese, Part One
This is the story of one of the gravest injustices in American history, where over 120,000 people of Japanese descent were uprooted from their homes and placed into concentration camps without due process and in violation of their civil rights. Most lost everything; after the Second World World...
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Lend Lease and the Decision to Intervene in WWII: Part Three
Executive Decision is a podcast that looks at some of the most significant presidential decisions in American history: Why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making. This is Part Three, Episode Three: FDR and the Lend Lease Decision.…
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Lend Lease and the Decision to Intervene in WWII: Part Two
Executive Decision is a podcast that looks at some of the most significant presidential decisions in American history: Why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making. This is Part Two, Episode Three: Lend Lease and the Decision to...
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Lend Lease and the Decision to Intervene in WWII: Part One
In 1940, the Nazis overwhelmed the continent of Europe and left England isolated on its island across the Channel. Norway was conquered in eight weeks; France in six. Denmark had been absorbed in six hours. Most in America thought Britain would fall as quickly as had France or Norway. Everyone,...
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The Decision to Drop The Bomb: Part Three
Executive Decision is the podcast that reviews some of the most significant decisions in history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making. In part three of this episode, on Harry S Truman and the decision to drop the atom bomb…
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The Decision to Drop The Bomb: Part Two
Executive Decision is the podcast that reviews some of the most significant decisions in history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making. In part two of this episode, on Harry S Truman and the decision to drop the atom bomb, we...
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The Decision to Drop The Bomb: Part One
In Episode two of Executive Decision, the podcast that reviews the great decisions in presidential history, we look at Harry S Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on two cities in Japan during World War II. This first part of the three part episode analyzes Truman's background in WWI, the...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Part Three
The third part of our episode on the Cuban Missile Crisis and John F. Kennedy's decisions during that crisis looks at how Kennedy made the choices he made, and why his deep skepticism of the military, drawn from his study of history and his experience in the Navy, influenced his approach. This...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Part Two
This podcast reviews the decisions President John F. Kennedy made to respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis--a crisis he inadvertently provoked. It features archival recordings of the Excom committee--the group that advised Kennedy to the successful resolution of the crisis. Executive Decision is a...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Part One
Twenty-Seven October, 1962. The Soviet submarine B-59 has been hounded by surface craft from the US Navy for days. Zigging and zagging through the deep waters of the Caribbean near Cuba, the sub cannot shake its pursuers. They've been out of touch with Moscow for days; when they last checked in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Executive Decision reviews the most significant presidential decisions in American history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making.
HOSTED BY
Vic Bondi
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