The 9 Best Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia Podcast Episodes
1) The Making of the American Presidency (Part 1)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to the spring of 1787 when fifty-five men of property and elite status argued in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention for what President John Adams called ...Show More
2) If a Wall Falls
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to November 9, 1989, when East and West Berliners took sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall and President H.W. George Bush refrained from making grandiose statemen...Show More
3) Kennedy and Communism (Part 3)
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 1961, in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...Show More
4) Kennedy and Communism (Part 2)
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 1961 when President John F. Kennedy sits down with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential histor...Show More
5) Kennedy and Communism (Part 1 of 2)
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 3, 1961 as President John F. Kennedy prepared to hobble on stage for his first high-stakes summit with a soviet leader. Whistlestop is Slate's podcast ...Show More
6) Carter Withdraws From U.S. Olympics
America boycotted the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 in response to the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Here on the eve of the next winter Olympiad we’ll have the story of that decision by Presiden...Show More
7) The 25th Amendment
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to April 4, 1841, the death of president William Henry Harrison, and a flaw in the Constitution that needed fixing. Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about pres...Show More
8) Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate
Whistlestop presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate. People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha M...Show More
9) Four Score and Seven Years of Presidential Golfing
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to April 13, 1953 when Washington DC’s baseball team, the Senators, hoped the nation’s new President would deliver the first pitch of the season. Instead, Pres...Show More
10) The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 2)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 19, 2016 as Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the presidency, is asking his party not to play by the modern rules of ...Show More