#1287 The Hardest Job
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🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
"I don't think that it's very useful to compare the burden of the presidency of 1803 … with the burden of the presidency in your time."
— Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson
We talk with President Jefferson about an article written by John Dickerson of CBS regarding how difficult the office of the president has become. The article is titled "The Hardest Job in the World" and was published in this month's Atlantic magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day citizens and welcome Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast |
| 0:04.4 | listeners so good to have you with us thank you for listening |
| 0:07.8 | I'm just in love with the Thomas Jefferson Hour David. I just I look forward to what. No no I have periods where I think oh who's |
| 0:16.5 | listening and you know is is Krizzler the only one I think we've lost him yeah I |
| 0:22.2 | think he moved on one you know what we got to talk to our friend Bo Wright. |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, what's happened? We need to hear from him. I think he won his election. I think he's a councilman now. |
| 0:30.2 | Oh boy, that's the end of him. No, no, no. You know he'll be going on foreign junkets and well I hope he still |
| 0:36.3 | listens and if he does if you are listening bow congratulations good for you and dream |
| 0:42.1 | higher is what I say bow no no no no let's have a let's have a quick |
| 0:45.2 | update from you sometime soon this program this week is about an Atlantic |
| 0:51.0 | magazine article by John Dickerson called how the presidency |
| 0:55.8 | became impossible. It's not just Trump the job is now too much for anyone. |
| 0:59.9 | It's a long fascinating thoughtful provocative article in the Atlantic. |
| 1:04.2 | You can read it online. |
| 1:05.4 | I urge everyone to read it because it really asks the right questions. |
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| 1:12.0 | Go to Jefferson Hour.com and you can link to the article there and you know |
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