Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and let me be the first to wish you a happy 4th of July.

The 4th of July this year I'll be spending it in London of all places I will be with my child in London I we thought it would be interesting you know what we're going to do on the evening of the 4th of July we're going to go to the globe theater

recreated wow and we're going to see Romeo and Juliet.

Well, travel safely. In London. Well, we're a little apprehensive, but not much.

You know, you can't live your life that way.

No, it's a dangerous world and I'm... You know you're much more likely to be struck by a bread truck than anything else in life and so I'm going we're going to have a great time and we're trying to think of what we can do in London that night after the play that doesn't make us look like goofy Americans, but still to say something to each other, have a drink, salute,

we have a little flag, whatever it is,

but Liberty matters, you know, the 4th of July matters.

This week, we do our annual homage to the 4th of July and President Jefferson.

Well, you know, we were talking on this show with Gay Wilson, who's the chief historian

at the Robert H. Smith Center for International Studies at Madicello.

And she said something in our little interview that really struck me, David.

She said, you know, he wanted to be remembered for just three things, and one of them was the Declaration of Independence.

So of course, it's the birthday of the American Republic.

It's also a day that Jefferson had reason to be especially personally proud of because he wrote,

by any measure, one of the handful of most important documents in the history of the world.

Think of that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know if we devoted enough time to that or not.

Well usually we do.

We spend a lot of time on the writing of the

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