Good day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, always nice to address you.

Thank you so much for listening.

We so enjoy this program, you know, David, you and I are heading into 2018.

We've been at this now for what a dozen years or more.

Something like that. And we have a really reliable and faithful group of listeners

we do, we do, we do. And around the world and that's what makes

me want to keep doing it and I'm invigorated. I don't know about you but we're

listeners are proposing really interesting topics for us this week.

A woman named Emily Knight, I think from Minnesota,

said why not talk about the problem of peaceful transfer of power?

And you know, at first you think, oh, the election of 1800 and so on.

But when you begin to look at it, it's a vital, even urgent issue at this moment.

It is.

And it was really fun.

There's a couple of letters that we referenced in the show.

Margaret Baird Smith, where would we be without her? Her firsthand accounts.

That's a long and interesting story, her meeting Jefferson, her

writing about his inauguration, and then the one that I hadn't run across before was

her description of Jefferson leaving office and Madison coming in.

Yeah, remember that she was the wife of the editor of the National Intelligence or Samuel

Harrison Smith.

Thought very little of Jefferson before she met him.

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