#1514 Cultural Tours, Jefferson's France, and Joseph Whitehouse

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, we discuss Clay Jenkinson's upcoming cultural tour through Thomas Jefferson's France stopping in Paris, to Nice along the Cote d'Azur, the French Alps to the village of Saorge and continue in Jefferson's footsteps with stops in Orange, Pont du Gard, and finally Nimes and the Maison Carrée, which Jefferson called "the most precious morsel of antiguity." Jefferson said every man's first country is of course his own, but every rational man's second country must be France.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. And as always, thank you so much for listening,
0:06.9	taking the time to listen to these conversations. And also for supporting the Thomas Jefferson
0:12.1	hour, there are great many of you who do that in large ways and small ways. We appreciate it all.
0:19.3	And if you'd like to support the Thomas Jefferson hour, go to Jeffersonhour.com. You can click
0:25.6	on Donate and there's a number of ways to do it. Having said that, you can also go to Jeffersonhour.com
0:32.5	to learn all about Clay's retreats and particularly his cultural tours. And that is the subject
0:40.4	of this week's conversation. Clay, a few weeks ago, you sort of turned the tables, interviewed me,
0:46.0	and I said, turn about spare play. I want to talk to you about these cultural tours. And thankfully,
0:51.9	you agreed. And it was just a delightful conversation. I enjoyed it so much.
0:56.7	Well, it's a way of warming up for the France trip that I will be on by the time this air is taking
1:01.2	about 25 people through France. We also do trips, as you know, on the Lewis and Clark Trail,
1:07.8	mostly in Montana and Idaho. Yeah, we talked about that quite a bit at the beginning of the program.
1:12.4	You know, once you get on Lewis and Clark, it's hard to quit. It's so interesting. And Steinbeck
1:17.1	in Monterey, California and Jefferson's Virginia and Cuba, which is not really Jefferson's more
1:22.7	Theodore Roosevelt, Alexander von Humboldt and Hemingway, plus the Cold War, the Bay of Pigs,
1:30.0	and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And on and on, we're going to Greece in 2023. I hope people will
1:35.1	really join us for that. You know, that was my first love. I remember reading Homer in the
1:40.8	original Greek at Oxford, struggling, struggling. My daughter learned it at Columbia. And when we were
1:47.1	last there at the Mycene where Agamemnon lived, she resided the first 12 lines of the Iliad in
1:54.0	Greek, much to my astonishment. I'm not surprised, however. Let's get to the conversations and the show
2:01.2	this week. But before we do, I, you know, one thing that you brought up and I, you don't need to go
2:06.7	into detail because it's in the conversation and the show this week. But the bit about what you're
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