#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri

Listening to America

History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week, Clay’s conversation with Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about four subjects: Ken Burns’ documentary on the buffalo; the solar eclipse of Saturday, October 15; a new book by former Secret Service Agent Paul Landis about the Kennedy assassination — Landis actually tampered with the evidence in the presidential limo, and now, at 88, he wants to tell the people of America his story; and a preliminary conversation about the structure of road adventures, beginning with the Lewis and Clark Expedition and ending with Nicandri’s recent trip to the Arctic Circle.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to this podcast introduction to this week's issue of listening to America.
0:06.0	I'm glad you're here. I had a great conversation today with my friend, David DeCandry,
0:10.8	about a number of subjects, and I think you're going to really enjoy it. He's one of my favorite people
0:16.5	in one of my favorite correspondence, and he is so on board with listening to America idea. He's
0:23.0	been writing to me regularly with encouragement and praise. He thinks this may be some of the
0:29.0	best work that I've ever done. He wants to be part of it, of course, and I'm thrilled that he does.
0:34.8	So we were talking about road journeys. That's the last segment, and we're just getting started
0:39.6	with that. We talked about Paul Landis' new book, The Last Witness, about the Magic Bullet,
0:46.0	and new revelations of his own withholding of that evidence. From the Kennedy assassination,
0:52.8	we talked about part one of Ken Burns, two part, Bison Buffalo Documentary, which I'm in.
0:58.1	I'll be in more tonight, the second night, but we did a review of the first half. We'll do a review
1:03.5	of the second two hours in our next conversation. Then we talked about the road life, and how
1:14.5	every person who goes on a journey of this sort, whether it's Marco Polo or John Steinbeck,
1:23.7	goes through a similar process. It's called the genre process of this sort of travel.
1:30.7	Now I want to pick up here a little conversation that Mr. DeCandrian and I had after the recording.
1:38.8	It floats over the map pretty quickly with a lot of different subjects, but it covers a lot of
1:43.2	our passions, and I think you will enjoy it. So let's listen. Let's pick up a little of my
1:47.9	after recording conversation with our Enlightenment correspondent, Mr. David McCandry.
2:17.9	If you don't mind my teasing that debate, and it's not going to be a debate with Chirvinsky,
2:22.7	but that could be a fun show when we get around to doing it, because I think Kennedy is just
2:28.4	the classic example of a person president whose reputation rises and falls almost with the
2:35.1	frequency of the tide. Agreed, and you know, Dr. Chirvinsky is infinitely
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