Checks and Balance: 100 days of aptitude - a podcast by The Economist

A portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hangs in the Oval Office, where Joe Biden convenes historians to share how his hero began changing the country in his veryfirst weeks as president. But the new president faces tough trade-offs to secure hisambitious agenda. How much might this presidency transform America?

Historian Niall Ferguson tells us presidents learn the wrong lessons from those who came before them.The Economist’s Washington correspondent Idrees Kahloon and data journalist Elliott Morris also join.

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Jon Fasman.

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