Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour.

Here we are at the New Enlightenment Radio Network Barn.

It's cold.

It's midwinter in North Dakota. This is when

Lewis and Clark were really hunkering down for a couple of months of very

limited outdoor activity. They hunted, some of them made their way to the Mandan and Hidatsa villages for festivals and for female companionship,

but mostly they stayed in the confines of Fort Mandan and just got through what for them must have been the most brutal

winter of their lives.

For us, it's a mere routine.

This week we presented Thomas Jefferson, the President, with a number of questions from

listeners and it was a good conversation.

I like listener questions and sometimes we get stuck on one or two

but we actually got through quite a few this week

including a really intriguing one from a man who lives in the District of Columbia

and who is pretty upset. He's a Jeffersonian. He reads Latin and is studying Greek and so on,

but he doesn't like the fact that there is no proper,

no full representation in Congress by the 700,000 or so citizens of the District of Columbia.

That would be Elliot Skier, the 29-year-old, and you know I lived in DC.

I didn't know that. When? Back in the early 70s. What were you doing there?

Oh, I went to get a job with a film company. I didn't know that. Yes, I lived to I think it was 1718 Church Street right off DuPont Circle.

Well that's a beautiful. I love staying at DuPont Circle. It's my favorite part of the city.

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