#1314 Our Friend Beau

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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"Whatever your politics are, to think that the country is being taken seriously by young men and women who want us to be a Jeffersonian republic is just such a gratifying thing to me." — Clay S. Jenkinson

We greet a special visitor, our friend Beau Wright. Beau traveled from Lynchburg, Virginia to join us at the studio for a fruitful and interesting conversation about American ideals. Beau is a 3rd generation Lynchburg native and an 8th generation Central Virginian, and is currently the Director of Operations at Protect Democracy, along with serving as a council member at-large for the city of Lynchburg. Beau worked at the White House from 2011 to 2017 in numerous positions, including the Senior Deputy Director of Operations and Director for Finance. Beau was responsible for managing the White House's appropriation, and advising senior White House leadership on budget strategy.

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0:00.0	Good day citizens and welcome to this podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour.
0:05.6	It feels like we're like, we're some pivotal place now people keep coming to visit and this time Mr. Bow Wright. I don't know how much we really
0:15.8	want to encourage that but well Bow Wright came.
0:20.0	Bow can come anytime. He lives in Lynchburg. He's been an occasional
0:22.6	correspondent on the Thomas Jarvis and our people that are avid
0:25.7	listeners will remember him. He's a young idealist who worked in the Obama
0:28.9	administration. Self-described progressive. Now he's on the city
0:32.0	commission in Lynchburg. We have him on not because he's a
0:34.5	progressive but because he's a fascinating and engaged young man who who wrote us I
0:39.6	think and that's how the relationship began he wrote us us to say, to ask some question about the
0:44.0	difference between the presidency now and the presidency in the time of Jefferson.
0:48.1	And that was the beginning of a long and fruitful correspondence and then he just showed up. It was great.
0:55.0	And I remember when he was first on we were mostly interested in talking about the size of the White House staff in Jefferson's time and the size of the White House staff today.
1:05.6	But you know we all have impressions in our head about what it would be like to be there, you know,
1:10.0	it goes back to the days of watching the television series West Wing and now Madam Secretary.
1:17.8	What's it really like in the White House?
1:19.8	So here we had a guy who was there and not doing flashy important well I'm sure it
1:26.5	was important.
1:27.5	Lots of the White House budgeting.
1:29.5	Towards the end it all passed through him but but he saw the everyday mundane duties that had to go on at the
1:38.0	White House I guess can anything be mundane at the White House?
1:41.0	I don't know but he said this and I don't think he meant this as a partisan
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