#1237 More Listener Letters

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"I was always happiest when I could direct the reading of a promising young man."

— Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson

Here at the Jefferson Hour, we love our listener mail. We try to answer as many letters as possible because they help us to open up new avenues of discourse. This week, we devote another episode to answering listener questions. Subjects covered include civil discourse, the virtues of France, Jefferson's suggested reading of the classics and John Adam's midnight appointments.

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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0	Good Day podcast listeners and it's another Thomas Jefferson hour listener question show.
0:05.0	That was good that we started with this handwritten letter, a wonderful letter that someone wrote to us saying that...
0:11.0	We need his name one more
0:12.7	we have shaped his life well I don't know about well I just going by what he said
0:17.8	I mean I'm sure it's not true he said some very nice things but do you still
0:20.6	have his letter in front of him?
0:21.3	Jeffrey Butler of Greensboro, North Carolina.
0:24.3	Four pages.
0:25.1	Thanks a lot.
0:26.1	Really good.
0:27.1	He talks about the member we recommended the book,
0:29.8	Liberty's first crisis.
0:31.2	Do you ever write like, you know know you'll read a story or you read a
0:36.4	book or and you're impressed by and it leaves a mark on you do you ever sit down
0:41.8	and write the author? Yes. Do you? It's hard to get to them sometimes.
0:46.5	You know, and I rarely do that. There's a couple of times I've been inspired to but I want this guy to know we got his letter and it really made our day
0:57.6	You know David as somebody who who's written books and often feels like you you issue them into the world without any known response.
1:05.9	When somebody writes to me and says what something that I've written has meant to them, it's not only makes my day, in some sense it makes you go on and
1:16.6	continue to do this sort of work.
1:18.0	It makes me work harder.
1:19.0	Yeah, it does.
1:20.0	It does.
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