The transition of power from one president to the next is a very complicated process and it actually is getting more complicated by the year. It doesnt always go so smoothly. A new book takes us behind the scenes. How george w. Bush and barack obama managed a transfer of power. Its by political scientist and professor martha joint kumar. Martha welcome to press pass. Thank you for having us. Well talk about that part of your studies later. So the book before the oath, its interesting youre focusing on this transition. Historically it might be the smoothest transition of one president to another from two different parties in our modern history. It was very very good transition. And i think one of the one of the reasons why was all the attention that president bush and his team and the white house and the administration the attention they put onto an early preparation out. This was two big lessons that focused the Bush Administration on this. Number one was how short the transition was,
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