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This week three of our old friends was your idea Clay you said, you know, it's been a long time

Since we've talked pat and bow and Brad and or

Chrysler as you say and so we talked all three of them and it was just delightful. I love these people, you know, Pat is one of the most

Lovely and life-affirming people that I've ever met in my life. She's been exceedingly

Good to us. She's sent seeds. She's welcomed

In her former role as the head gardener at Monticello friends of the Jefferson hour

They come and mention the show and she shows them around the gardens and if the moment is right

They get to plant a bit of lettuce or to help cut back some vine or other

You know, she represents the Jeffersonian in my opinion at a time when

Monticello is in some ways less Jeffersonian than it has ever been

So that's really

Very important and bow right is that kind of golden youth who believes in public service

Who had as a child almost worked for the Obama administration?

I hope believes in the progressive

Agenda but is exceedingly reasonable and never doctrinaire

And so he always brings a high level of

good sense

And I think of an insider's understanding of what goes on in Washington to bear on

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