#1548 Ten Things about Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Clay Jenkinson discusses Jefferson’s first inaugural address with regular guest Lindsay Chervinsky. The speech, inaudibly delivered on March 4, 1801, is regarded as one of the top five in American history. After a hotly contested election, Jefferson was able to say, “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” Part utopian vision for America, part political theater, part endorsement of the strength and durability of a republican form of government, the first inaugural address was one of the handful of Jefferson’s greatest written statements.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to this podcast introduction to the Thomas Jefferson hour my conversation with Dr. Lindsey Chervinsky
0:05.5	Ten things about Jefferson's first inaugural address
0:09.2	Fascinating, you know she's not a great fan of Thomas Jefferson
0:13.6	That's not really fair. She's she has some skepticism about Jefferson as I do too after the broadcast was finished
0:20.8	We kept talking and I want you to listen to this because see I was out in the middle of the middle of the middle of nowhere in the
0:26.3	American West looked up at the television there on CNN was none other than Dr. Lindsey Chervinsky
0:31.5	So let's pick up the conversation right there
0:35.2	This is one of the great moments of my life
0:37.3	I was on this water trip wandering around the American Southwest and we wound up at this funky
0:45.8	motel
0:47.0	under a cliff and
0:50.3	We were tired and we went in for dinner and
0:54.6	Got a good night sleep the next morning. We're having breakfast before you go on our next
0:59.5	Part of our excursion and I'm looking up at the television across the room way across the room and I said to Dennis my friend
1:06.9	that woman
1:08.3	Who's on CNN looks a good deal like my friend Lindsey Chervinsky and he said
1:14.1	And I said I mean look at that and I said it is Lindsey Chervinsky
1:19.7	It is Lindsey Chervinsky and there you were so explain how you got that gig. Yeah, well
1:26.0	I'm a little bummed you didn't hear my voice first because I would have really have loved to see your reaction of like hearing my voice and then being like where is she?
1:32.8	Why is she here?
1:35.4	Yeah, you can never get away from me
1:37.4	so as part of my
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