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b"January 25, 2021 - When George Washington accepted the responsibility of being the first president of a new nation, he felt the weight of history on his broad shoulders, knowing that every step he took, would set precedents for generations. So, how did he pick a team of advisers to keep his path straight on the long march to nationhood?\\n\\nWe explore how he pioneered the presidential cabinet with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky. She's a historian of Early America, the presidency, and government who brings us The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. \\n\\nLindsay Chervinsky is Scholar in Residence at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College, Senior Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, and Professorial Lecturer at the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. She earned her Ph.D. in history from UC Davis.\\n\\nFind her at LindsayChervinsky.com, or on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where you can also find the page for QuincyTheHistoryHound.\\n\\nPrevious interviews on the period:\\n\\n \\tDavid Head: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution\\n \\tBob Drury and Tom Clavin: Valley Forge\\n \\tPeter Stark: Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America\\u2019s Founding Father\\n \\tFergus Bordewich: The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government"