Listen to Presidential, The Washington Post’s Podcast Exploring Each & Every U.S. President

A quick heads up on Pres­i­den­t’s Day: The Wash­ing­ton Post presents Pres­i­den­tial, a pod­cast that explores how “each Amer­i­can pres­i­dent reached office, made deci­sions, han­dled crises and rede­fined the role of com­man­der-in-chief.” Nat­u­ral­ly, it starts with George Wash­ing­ton. Hear that episode below.

Pres­i­den­tial is host­ed by Wash­Po edi­tor Lil­lian Cun­ning­ham and fea­tures Pulitzer Prize-win­ning his­to­ri­ans like David McCul­lough and jour­nal­ists like Bob Wood­ward. Right now you can get all 45 episodes (each about 30–50 min­utes long) on iTunes, Sound­cloud and Stitch­er.

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