Good Day podcast listeners and welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Hour.

We're going to resume our Jefferson 101 series this week, sir.

We're now going to elect Jefferson President.

We've taken a number of breaks, but people have been asking us to continue and to wrap up

Jefferson 101.

It'll probably be a 25 or 30 episode biography by the time that we're done.

And you know what I love most about it, David,

is that it allows us to look at Jefferson

from the outside, out of character, and to try to, I bet at this for a long time and so have you,

try to reassess Jefferson, knowing everything that we've been talking about for the past few years,

and then focusing on these specific relatively short episodes in his life and trying to bring

some insight and clarity into who he was and how he operated and why he was such an astonishing success.

It amazes me how much is still being written about this man.

Unbelievable.

You know, and maybe not everything is exactly top of the reading list.

A lot of it is great.

But anybody who decides to become a biographer of Jefferson or do a

historical writing about Jefferson's time, I don't see how you can help but become

captivated by it and begin to realize how important

it is in the long view of the nation in which we live it what you know we talked early on about

Jefferson and his Republican ideals and how he was watching the the government sort of take us somewhere away from that.

There's this famous quote in Meacham's book about somebody writing about how, I think maybe it was Dickerson, who wrote about how we were

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