How Presidents Handle Their Last Year In Office

NPR

Published December 30, 2015 at 1:40 PM EST

During his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama said he has some “unfinished business” to take care of during his final year in office.

That got us thinking: what have other presidents done in their “lame duck” years? Here & Now’s Robin Young asks one of our favorite historians, Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer.

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He tweets @julianzelizer.