#1356 Considering Exceptionalism
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🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Prompted by a letter from a listener, President Thomas Jefferson shares his views on American exceptionalism and his hope that America will stand as a strong and good example for the rest of the world to follow.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and as always sincerely thank you for listening and thank you for supporting the show. |
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| 0:33.0 | State planning begins right here. |
| 0:35.0 | This was a fun show. You know, really in the second segment when Jefferson went into, you know, he kind of said, |
| 0:42.0 | no, no, no, no no listen you you know this is |
| 0:44.1 | not about majesty this is where yeah that was really I mean that was great I |
| 0:49.1 | I applaud you for and he for that we know what John said, I wanted to quote him, but I was too busy attacking |
| 0:55.6 | him instead, but he said... |
| 0:57.6 | Oh, you weren't too bad. |
| 0:58.6 | I love Adams. |
| 0:59.6 | He said to Jefferson, you and I must be statesmen so that our sons will be lawyers and philosophers so |
| 1:05.0 | that their children can be dancers and poets and so on. |
| 1:08.8 | And it's so so right. |
| 1:10.3 | That was in a letter to Jefferson during the reconciliation. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, and so I mean that's just... |
| 1:15.0 | Do you remember how Jefferson responded to that? |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, I mean he gets it, like, but of course Jefferson would probably say, |
| 1:21.6 | I'm all those things. |
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