Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour, podcast listeners and welcome and thank you for listening.

This week we talk about the 26 President of the United States Theater Roosevelt and I want to jump right

to the chase on this David.

One of my great mentors, Everett Albers,

of the North Dakota Humanities Council,

could not abide Roosevelt.

He just couldn't admire him because of Roosevelt's views of American Indians, which are plenty bad at times.

And Ev, who was a very humane and forgiving man, he took the whole man theory, he said,

I just can't wrap my arms around.

Theodore Roosevelt, I disagree with that. I think Roosevelt is one of the most extraordinary

men of American history, but of course not without his faults.

He said some pretty awful things, but again in the show we talk about that and I really, I

got to think that through some more, right?

What do you think of my theory about the the Jefferson

and and and Roosevelt and the and the Aryan supremacy of you.

Supremacy is a kind of a loaded term of course well yeah but you know what I mean

but I want to I want to distinguish them just a little bit which we weren't able to do

in the show so yes they both believe that the Anglo-Saxons are the class act of the world without question but

there's a slight difference. Roosevelt's views were largely race-based and

there was a time in his life when he flirted a little with the eugenics movement.

Jefferson's were different.

Jefferson admittedly has his own problems here, but Jefferson believed that the European Enlightenment,

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