#1262 The Final Years (Part Three)
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🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
"Two seraphs await me long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my last parting breath."
— Thomas Jefferson, July 1826
We conclude our Jefferson 101 biographical series by discussing his final days at Monticello, his legacy, and the deaths of both Jefferson and John Adams on July 4th, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day podcast listeners this week on the Thomas Jefferson hour it's the final |
| 0:06.1 | episode of Jefferson 101 I didn't know that we would have the strength of |
| 0:11.4 | moral courage to do it well we could talk more about it next week well |
| 0:14.8 | I have some plans for future programs that that actually your daughter is going to be |
| 0:18.6 | back next week with a wonderful show about Jefferson and travel. |
| 0:23.1 | That scamp. |
| 0:24.3 | She is a... |
| 0:26.0 | Don't you say that? |
| 0:26.8 | She even, I think, rebuked you on the air implicitly. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, well, yeah. |
| 0:31.3 | But anyway, the sick ofant. Yeah, sick of that. How me a sycophant. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, sycophant. |
| 0:33.7 | How did she even learn that word? |
| 0:35.7 | I wonder if it wasn't from her dad. |
| 0:38.1 | Anyway, she's great and she's the light of my life. |
| 0:41.7 | She's my Martha Jefferson, his beloved daughter, |
| 0:45.8 | the best relationship of his life, |
| 0:47.8 | the best relationship of my life. |
| 0:49.0 | But this week, this week, yes. |
| 0:51.9 | Really the last year, and particularly the last week, |
| 0:56.0 | of the life of Thomas Jefferson. |
| 0:57.8 | It's hard to talk about it, but once again, |
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