#1379 Constituents Represented
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
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"Nobody is entitled to a career in the Senate or a career in the House or a career in the governor's mansion, and the people who aspire to that are corrupt." — Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
President Jefferson answers listener questions such as how representatives should react and vote when their own views differ from the constituents they represent. Another question looks at Jefferson's relationship with John Adams.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and as always thank you so much for listening |
| 0:06.8 | David I'm coming off two of the most delightful retreats ever at Locksaw Lodge west of Missoula. The weather was absolutely perfect. |
| 0:15.6 | We had two extraordinary groups of people. Some of the best discussions we have ever had |
| 0:19.9 | the hot springs are just unbelievable. |
| 0:22.6 | And now there are two already in the works for next year, |
| 0:25.8 | January 10th through 15th of next year. |
| 0:29.7 | The first of the two is on J Robert Oppenheimer, my favorite historical character, and the building |
| 0:36.3 | of the atomic bomb and the decision to use it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 0:40.9 | That's January 10th through 15th, 2021 at Locksaw Lodge and then the |
| 0:46.7 | second week is January 17th through 22nd and that's Thoreau's Walden and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. |
| 0:55.0 | Two great moments in American literature, Walden, my favorite book and I think the most important book ever written in this country and |
| 1:04.7 | then the greatest poem ever written in the United States the greatest long poem |
| 1:08.5 | certainly Whitman's Leaves of Grass so that's the 17th through the 22nd of January west of |
| 1:14.4 | Missoula and January 10th through 15th, J Robert Oppenheimer. And then in March |
| 1:18.7 | dates not quite set yet. Our third, John Steinbeck and California retreat. So just great things are |
| 1:28.1 | happening. We're also going to be going back to France next year and another trip on the Canal de Medi probably and Jefferson in |
| 1:36.9 | Greece coming and another Jefferson in Virginia coming so go to the Jefferson |
| 1:41.7 | our site for all of that and more. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm so glad that you're doing one on Oppenheimer. |
| 1:47.6 | You know I need to read more about him. |
| 1:51.0 | I have an extensive library I'll bring you books. The best |
| 1:55.3 | book to read is is Kybird and William Sherwin's American Prometheus. You know we |
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