#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better

Listening to America

History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, the first of a two part conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky on the life and achievement of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States. Adams was perhaps the greatest Secretary of State in American history. He had a rough one-term presidency, but then he won a seat in the House of Representatives that he retained until his death in 1848. He was one of America's greatest opponents of slavery.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to this podcast introduction to listening to America with Clay Jenkins and what a wonderful summer.
0:07.0	I'm already having, it's a beautiful June here in North Dakota.
0:12.0	I'm heading out next week to go to Sioux Falls and then wall South Dakota, you know, wall drug, the famous wall drug.
0:19.0	I'm going to be touring an ICBM missile site that is operated by the National Government of the United States near Philip, South Dakota.
0:29.0	And then on to the Sand Creek Massacre near Pueblo, Colorado. I've got some work to do in Vale and mid-June.
0:37.0	But this is a journey along the way to all of that and I couldn't be more excited.
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1:08.0	Like a mead behind Hoover Dam is just up 10 feet and who knows what will happen with that.
1:14.0	It's all about how they push water down stream. Of course, their main recipient of that water is California.
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1:55.0	David DeCandry will continue to be our west coast correspondent for questions of the Enlightenment.
2:00.0	And I'll be doing a whole series of programs from the road.
2:03.0	I'm going in just a few days to South Dakota, heading to the Pine Ridge and to what once was known as Harnie Peak and the Black Hills Now Black Elk Peak.
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