Now It's History

Now It's History

A warning from the Jimmy Carter era

Trump's slow-motion Cabinet purge

Richard Galant
Apr 23, 2026
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President Jimmy Carter and Patrick Caddell, in the Oval Office.

On the last Saturday in April, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter met in the Oval Office with one of the people who helped put them in the White House: pollster Patrick Caddell.

The 28-year-old former campaign aide had developed a back-channel connection to Rosalynn, …

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