#1195 Jefferson 112 (Jefferson in Paris)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This Jefferson 101 episode is the second of three shows devoted to Jefferson's time in Paris from 1784 to 1789.

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0:00.0	I'd like to have an x-ray machine for people's...
0:02.0	The answer to that is self-evident.
0:04.0	You know, I'd like to have an x-ray machine for people's hidden sex lives.
0:08.0	No, no thanks.
0:09.0	If we knew what...
0:10.0	If we could tell...
0:11.0	We're rolling.
0:12.0	Yeah, I know. We're talking about Sally Hemings because we could tell... We're rolling. Yeah, I know.
0:13.0	We're talking about Sally Hemings because we've been a second of two of three programs about
0:17.0	Jefferson and France.
0:18.4	And inevitably, no matter how you try to handle Jefferson's time in France, you do come up against Sally and James Hemings.
0:25.1	And so we tried to give it the least amount of treatment that it can hold.
0:29.2	Oh, I think it was a, you know, it's a way taking over well it's part of the story of
0:35.2	Jefferson and France by the way welcome to this podcast edition of the
0:39.0	Thomas Jefferson hour here's my philosophy I'll tell you in a nutshell good it
0:42.3	it wouldn't surprise me if it's true right my philosophy I'll tell you in a nutshell. Good.
0:43.0	It wouldn't surprise me if it's true.
0:44.0	Right.
0:45.0	It doesn't seem to me to be out of character necessarily.
0:48.0	It wouldn't surprise me if it's not true.
0:50.0	I repeat, it wouldn't surprise me if it's not true.
0:52.6	If it's true, we don't know quite what it means.
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