Thirty-sev​en days after win​ning the pres​id​ency, Bill Clin​ton an​nounced his intention to nom​in​ate Lloyd Bent​sen as his Treas​ury sec​ret​ary. It was his first Cabinet an​nounce​ment. In 2008, Pres​id​ent Obama worked quite a bit quick​er, announcing eight of his 15 Cab​in​et nom​in​a​tions in the same time frame. But even he couldn’t match the speed at which Donald Trump has unveiled his nominees.

Little has united Hil​lary Clin​ton and Don​ald Trump over the past year, but they could have sup​por​ted each oth​er through dif​fi​cult cam​paign-logo rol​louts. When it was un​veiled last April, Clin​ton’s logo was trashed by a num​ber of design ex​perts, who cri​ti​cized its con​ser​vat​ive-look​ing, right​ward-fa​cing ar​row. However, the cam​paign stuck with the logo and it has since been ad​ap​ted and em​braced by many of her al​lies.

President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey has spawned comparisons to Watergate and renewed whispers about impeachment proceedings. It’s also led to bipartisan calls for an independent investigation, led by a special counsel, into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow. But much to the chagrin of the loudest voices, the process is none too simple. After the Watergate scandal and through President Clinton’s numerous legal difficulties, clear legislation governed the appointment of special prosecutors. Yet since 1999, none exists.

Last Fri​day, FBI dir​ect​or James Comey threw a wrench in​to a cam​paign that fi​nally seemed poised for a some​what con​ven​tion​al out​come. In send​ing a let​ter to con​gres​sion​al Re​pub​lic​ans an​noun​cing the dis​cov​ery of new emails po​ten​tially re​lated to the in​vest​ig​a​tion in​to Hil​lary Clin​ton’s private serv​er, Comey en​deared him​self to con​ser​vat​ives who had pre​vi​ously labeled him the face of a cor​rupt FBI in​tent on hand​ing the elec​tion to Clin​ton.

On any given night, a quick scroll through Twitter could yield a lengthy list of political insiders griping about the Washington Nationals’ tenuous relief pitching situation or celebrating a Bryce Harper grand slam. A few key trade associations have taken this as an advertising opportun­ity.

On Sept. 21, 2001, base​ball re​turned to New York, just 10 days after the city exper​i​enced the single dead​li​est ter​ror​ist at​tack on U.S. soil. Be​fore the game began at Shea Sta​di​um, the home of the New York Mets, Di​ana Ross led a crowd of more than 41,000 in a mem​or​able sing-along of “God Bless Amer​ica,” which members of Con​gress sang on the Cap​it​ol steps in the hours after the at​tacks. In the play​offs later that fall, the New York Yan​kees would ce​ment the song’s place in baseball lore in by tap​ping Ir​ish ten​or Ron​an Tyn​an to per​form his goose​bump-indu​cing take on the song dur​ing the sev​enth-in​ning stretch.