#1484 Ten Things About James Monroe

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky discuss James Monroe, America's fifth president. He is perhaps best remembered for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while asserting America's dominance in the western hemisphere. Over the course of his political career, Monroe served as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, governor of Virginia, and ambassador to Britain and France.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson. Our podcast listeners as always. Thank you so much for listening.
0:06.4	And as always, thank you so much for your support. Those of you who go to the Jefferson
0:11.3	Hour.com website and leave a question or make the choice to donate to support the show.
0:17.9	Thank you. Thank you so very much. This week, another 10 things conversation with Lindsay
0:24.2	Trevinsky and Clay Jenkinson and the subject this week is James Monroe.
0:29.2	I think this is the fourth in this series. We're going to do a dozen or more, maybe a couple of
0:34.9	dozen, 10 things about James Monroe. Next time it will be George III and we're planning Dolly
0:41.6	Madison and so forth. So David, this is an idea that I had I think in November around Thanksgiving
0:48.8	when I was reading a biography and I came upon some interesting things about Hamilton that I
0:56.4	didn't previously know and the point is not to just do trivia but to use these as windows into
1:02.2	the character and achievement of these great historical figures. So today, we did the program
1:08.5	on Monroe and I was intrigued when we were planning this because Lindsay is not a great fan of
1:12.6	Monroe and it turns out she really has two criticisms. Let's put them of Monroe. First of all,
1:20.2	that he was boring, which is hardly a criticism. He wasn't as colorful a writer as Jefferson. He
1:27.2	wasn't as brilliant a pro stylist. He wasn't as penetrating a thinker as Madison but he was an
1:32.6	extraordinarily able man. And her second beef against Monroe is that she thinks that he gets
1:39.6	undeserved credit for the Monroe doctrine and so we spent some time talking about that. I
1:44.2	apologize. I'm a little stuffed up. I just came back from a locksaw lodge for two weeks,
1:49.1	both highly successful but I I wear myself out doing them and I got a little bit of a head cold.
1:54.3	And then next year we're meeting again in the same place at the same time. The first one will be on
1:59.2	the return journey of Lewis and Clark from the time they left Fort Klatsup on the Pacific Ocean
2:03.8	until they came back over the Rocky Mountains and down the Great Plains to St. Louis. It'll be the
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