#1263 Jefferson's Travels

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"I saw the future of the American experiment in the West."

— Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson

Catherine Jenkinson returns to host a conversation with President Jefferson about his travels in France, Europe and the United States.

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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0	Good Day podcast listeners. We're back this week with our special guest host
0:04.3	Catherine Jenkinson for a second skewing of Mr Jefferson.
0:09.3	Neo Hamiltonian, I think you are, Catherine. You know it's great to be here and to be able to ask these questions and I don't like how
0:16.8	touchy you are.
0:18.8	So what do you really think of...
0:19.8	Who are you talking to?
0:20.8	Me, Claire, Jefferson.
0:21.8	Which one of us?
0:23.0	What do you really think of Jefferson?
0:25.0	Well, anyone has to admire Jefferson for all of his amazing qualities,
0:31.0	his amazing intellect, and his enormous sophistication in early America,
0:38.0	but we also have to acknowledge the problems and people have real and
0:42.4	legitimate concerns
0:44.0	about supporting the constant sort of
0:48.4	apotheosis of Jefferson.
0:50.3	So you, I mean, let's be serious here, so you've been studying for the past five years,
0:55.0	including at Mr. Hamilton's University, Columbia.
0:59.0	You feel that it's impossible to be naively praise full of Jefferson anymore.
1:07.2	Exactly.
1:08.2	Because.
1:09.3	Because we're living in 2017 a fundamentally different time and we can at once
1:17.4	acknowledge the incredible things that Thomas Jefferson did for the
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