Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p
Hi. One year from today or actually 363 days from today, a new president will be sworn in and ill actually be potentially a second biden term, potentially a second trump term, potentially a first nikki haley term. 4000 political appointees will be installed. The federal government, 8000 positions will be decided. And a president will have to pick their priorities and have to work backward from that to try to move them forward. Its an enormous undertaking and we are really delighted today to have three experts in the most complicated transaction that happens on the planet. Weve had turbulent transitions before. Obviously in 2021 we had a very turbulent transition and we have experts on that transition. With us today. But turbulent transitions are also not new. In 1800, we had the first peaceful 1801 we had the first peaceful transfer of power from one Political Party to another ever in human history, because prior to that, we didnt have democracies with competing parties. And that was n
Welcome to 2024. Hi. One year from today or actually 363 days from today, a new president will be sworn in and ill actually be potentially a second biden term, potentially a second trump term, potentially a first nikki haley term. 4000 political appointees will be installed. The federal government, 8000 positions will be decided. And a president will have to pick their priorities and have to work backward from that to try to move them forward. Its an enormous undertaking and we are really delighted today to have three experts in the most complicated transaction that happens on the planet. Weve had turbulent transitions before. Obviously in 2021 we had a very turbulent transition and we have experts on that transition. With us today. But turbulent transitions are also not new. In 1800, we had the first peaceful 1801 we had the first peaceful transfer of power from one Political Party to another ever in human history, because prior to that, we didnt have democracies with competing partie
Hi. One year from today or actually 363 days from today, a new president will be sworn in and ill actually be potentially a second biden term, potentially a second trump term, potentially a first nikki haley term. 4000 political appointees will be installed. The federal government, 8000 positions will be decided. And a president will have to pick their priorities and have to work backward from that to try to move them forward. Its an enormous undertaking and we are really delighted today to have three experts in the most complicated transaction that happens on the planet. Weve had turbulent transitions before. Obviously in 2021 we had a very turbulent transition and we have experts on that transition. With us today. But turbulent transitions are also not new. In 1800, we had the first peaceful 1801 we had the first peaceful transfer of power from one Political Party to another ever in human history, because prior to that, we didnt have democracies with competing parties. And that was n
Welcome to 2024. Hi. One year from today or actually 363 days from today, a new president will be sworn in and ill actually be potentially a second biden term, potentially a second trump term, potentially a first nikki haley term. 4000 political appointees will be installed. The federal government, 8000 positions will be decided. And a president will have to pick their priorities and have to work backward from that to try to move them forward. Its an enormous undertaking and we are really delighted today to have three experts in the most complicated transaction that happens on the planet. Weve had turbulent transitions before. Obviously in 2021 we had a very turbulent transition and we have experts on that transition. With us today. But turbulent transitions are also not new. In 1800, we had the first peaceful 1801 we had the first peaceful transfer of power from one Political Party to another ever in human history, because prior to that, we didnt have democracies with competing partie