#1376 Historian's Perspective

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We are joined this week by one of our favorite guests, Professor Joseph Ellis. Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and American historian whose work focuses primarily on the times of the American founders. Highly recommended are his books, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Professor Ellis offers his unique perspective on the volatile times we are living through.

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0:00.0	Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, and let me get this out of the way right up front.
0:08.8	We so appreciate those of you who have taken the time to support the Thomas Jefferson
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0:23.1	There's a number of ways to do it, but in all seriousness.
0:26.1	We need your support to stay on the air and during the times that we're living
0:32.4	through now, I think the voice of Jefferson is more important than ever.
0:37.0	And this week's show, I think is a great example of that.
0:41.7	We have an extended discussion that, well a whole show really just with Professor Joseph Ellis
0:48.1	I am sure there are some listeners out there who
0:51.3	Caring their hair out of this who may have some trouble with it there's one
0:55.0	there's one person in particular who wrote in and just lambasted for
0:58.4	savage attack on me show.
1:00.0	You know and I'm uneasy about this week's show. Let me say it and I'll back off and you can take over but I
1:05.8	Ellis has such a unique perspective.
1:09.1	He is so knowledgeable about, I mean look at the books he's written.
1:15.6	In the show, we talk about an opinion piece he wrote for CNN, December 15, 2019, and he goes through the impeachment of a number of
1:26.5	presidents and then says the real reason and at the end I just short paragraph he
1:30.4	writes Donald Trump is being impeached on two charges of misbehavior during his
1:35.2	dealings with Ukraine. The Judiciary Committee in the House has deliberately kept the charges
1:40.1	within the narrow range of the Ukraine fiasco. The real charge against Trump,
1:44.8	I warned you this was coming he says, is that his entire presidency has been
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