#1429 I Have Some Questions
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🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Clay S. Jenkinson answers listener questions and speaks about the Wall Street Journal's erroneous reporting of Jefferson's impeachment (he was not impeached), and also talks about Jefferson's literary tastes and writing. Questions presented include a request for a good biography on Abigail Adams, Jefferson's daily cold water foot baths and reliable resources for Jefferson quotations.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners as always. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.1 | And thank you to those of you who have decided to support the show in a financial way. We |
| 0:12.4 | so appreciate it. And we so need it. And also, thank you to those of you who have taken the |
| 0:18.8 | time to write us questions. As I've said many times, I read every one of those and I really enjoy |
| 0:25.3 | them and I really appreciate them, the criticism, the praise and the just straight ahead questions. |
| 0:31.2 | And this week we take time to answer a bunch of those questions. |
| 0:34.8 | I love the questions that come in from our listeners because they often approach Jefferson |
| 0:40.8 | from an angle that we might not have addressed ourselves. I mean, today we wound up talking about |
| 0:45.6 | Jefferson and Coldwater baths because one of our listeners had had found out that there is a |
| 0:51.4 | neural lot. There's a physiological benefit to Coldwater foot baths that Mr. Jefferson probably |
| 0:56.5 | was unaware of but nevertheless, that was one of his practices. And then we had questions about |
| 1:01.7 | the best biographies of Miss Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams |
| 1:08.3 | and so on. I love programs like this where we get to address a range of listener interests |
| 1:14.1 | and to try to make sense of all sorts of things that we you and I might not ever have gotten |
| 1:19.7 | to ourselves. I do have one correction that we need to talk about and I know you always want these. |
| 1:28.2 | It didn't make it in the main show but that's all right because this listener listens on podcasts. |
| 1:32.6 | So this is for you Andy Higgins and he says that Clay you misspoke in your town hall |
| 1:39.7 | of January 5th 2021. You said the Magna Carta was written in English in middle English. |
| 1:46.2 | He says it was written in Latin and he says I know I've seen it in person when it was on |
| 1:51.5 | display in Virginia Beach when they celebrated its 400th anniversary. So what's your response to that? |
| 1:58.6 | He is correct. So do you did misspoke? Oh yes. I did. So you did misspoke. You misspoke. So did I? |
| 2:04.8 | I did misspoke. I do all the time. I know that. Of course I've seen it in translation all my life. |
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